Services with an edge
Whether you just need a CMMI appraisal, are looking for some CMMI or Scrum Training, or are seeking to improve software and engineering performance, Broadsword uses a double-edged approach to get results quickly.
On the downstroke, we drop the weight of our sharp, professionally packaged solutions. Each solution includes methods, techniques, and tools that have worked for hundreds of companies and are customizable for you. On the upstroke, we clear away obstacles, roadblocks and threats before you even see them coming.
Broadsword does it all. We offer a range of solutions from our agileCMMI Methodology to our CMMI Accelerator product, from SCAMPI Appraisals to CMMI training and CMMI consulting. Our agileSCAMPI method streamlines appraisals to make them more useful and efficient. Our experience is deep in fields such as management consulting, engineering, project management and process improvement. We don’t do what you do. We help you do it better.
Cut through the clutter. Contact Broadsword.
Appraisals
Appraisals for the way you do business.
Broadsword makes appraisals easier for you. We’re an SEI Partner licensed to perform all classes of SCAMPI Appraisals for CMMI-DEV and CMMI-SVC.
Our approach to appraisals is just enough – not too much.
Though proud of our advanced degrees and training from prestigious universities, the Broadsword team takes a practical, not academic, approach to problem solving. Because we’ve seen engineering work done so many different ways over the years, we understand what you go through every day. As a result, we don’t try to fit you into the CMMI model. We make the CMMI fit into you.
Make it easier. Contact Broadsword.
Our Appraisal offerings include:
- SCAMPI A, B, and C Appraisals
- CMMI-DEV or CMMI-SVC Appraisals
- CMMI Gap Analysis
- CMMI Mini-Appraisal
- Process Diagnostic
- Change Readiness Assessment
Training
Training that sticks.
If you love learning, Broadsword’s interactive learning experience will feel just right.
We offer more than 20 different training courses related to CMMI, Scrum, facilitation, project management, and other software process improvement topics – and each one is a truly remarkable experience.
We are certified to deliver SEI training classes like “Introduction to CMMI” and “CMMI Level Three for Practitioners.”
Play games. Do exercises. Feel music. Tell stories and listen to your peers.
With real life examples, lessons and proven techniques, you take away – and retain – valuable information to be used on the job, immediately. See our training schedule here.
The SEI even awarded us the “SEI Member Award for Outstanding Representative” for our work in teaching others about the CMMI.
The Broadsword experience is not available anywhere else. Contact Broadsword.
Click here to see our Training offerings that include:
- SEI Authorized course like “Introduction to CMMI”
- Informal CMMI courses like “CMMI- All you need to know!”
- Agile methods courses like “Introduction to Scrum” and “Scrum+CMMI”
- Process improvement courses like “Process Implementation Boot Camp”
- Methods and techniques courses like “Agile Estimation.”
- Organizational learning like our famous “Project-in-a-Box”
- Appraisal related courses like “The Secrets of SCAMPI Appraisals.”
- and more!
Consulting
Consulting to help you do what you do, better.
Engineering teams small and large benefit from Broadsword’s complete, holistic approach and useful, scalable solutions.
But what makes every engagement special is our unique team of professionals. All of our consultants have strong, specific industry skills and deep experience in our clients’ business. From the first day, they bring methods and techniques that accelerate your journey to process improvement.
Our consultants have years of experience in both industry and consulting, and hold certifications from the SEI, PMI, and ScrumAlliance.
Add expertise in developing, improving and maintaining processes using the CMMI. Contact us.
Our consulting services are offered in five distinct categories:
- Executive Consulting
- Senior CMMI Consulting
- Agile Transformation
- Scrum Deployment
- Process Architecture Consulting
- AgileCMMI Consulting
- Appraisal Planning and Preparation Consulting
Workshops
Workshops for acceleration.
Broadsword workshops are popular, fun, hands-on working sessions in a structured environment, designed to move you rapidly toward a goal you are trying to achieve. We offer them as one-to-three-day intensives. Here’s what you experience:
- Get educated
- Try it yourself
- Be mentored
- Try it again
- Make breakthrough discoveries
Our workshop offerings include:
- Measurement Workshop
- Process Strategy Workshop
- Process Architecture Workshop
- Organizational Change Management Workshop
- Configuration Management Workshop
- Decision Analysis Workshop
- Process Quality Workshop
- Scrum+CMMI Workshop
- Project-in-a-Box (NEW for 2011!)
Contact Broadsword for a world-class workshop experience.
Products to Sharpen your Start
We’ve designed our products to compliment our training and consulting offerings, or each product can also stand alone as a jump-start kit for process improvement. Our CMMI Accelerator Toolkit includes sample policies and process descriptions that are designed to be customized for your use, helping you avoid the drudgery of creating the documents and files on your own. Simply change the header name to your organization’s name and adopt it, just the way it is worded, and get started with higher quality, quicker.
Contact Broadsword to shorten your path to success.
Accelerators
Designed to accelerate your organization’s software process improvement, our CMMI Accelerator is a set of proven templates, processes, policies, and work products that help restore predictability to engineering and puts your organization on the path to greatness..
The real jewel in our CMMI Accelerator is the CMMI Accelerator User Guide. The User Guide is jam-packed full of examples, advice, and tips on how to manage and execute projects using the CMMI.
The CMMI Accelerator, delivered on CD and organized by CMMI Maturity Level, includes the CMMI Accelerator for Level 2 and the CMMI Accelerator for Level 3, which are to be used as jump start kits for launching your own Engineering processes.
BSC Lifecycle
We also proudly offer the BSC Lifecycle, a phased methodology that helps you keep projects on track by identifying what deliverables get delivered in each phase of work. The BSC Lifecycle functions as a guide for running a project. We take into account the initiation phase, the planning phase, the engineering phase, and the design and delivery phase, and tell you what’s in each phase, and what order to do things in for the best results.
Broadsword training and consulting clients use these products as a part of their ongoing engagement with us. Smaller companies that aren’t ready for consulting are also invited to access these helpful tools.
Contact Broadsword for products that make you faster.
agileCMMI
agileCMMI Methodology
agileCMMI is an incremental and iterative method that leads you directly down the path to greatness. Our branded approach allows organizations to build things, pilot them, learn as they go, get feedback, determine what changes to make and make them. Because agileCMMI calls for performing incremental actions and building upon everything that has come before, work is done in short iterations. Your organization goes through an incremental and iterative process over time, until you have a complete, high performing engineering process.
agileCMMI is available for licensing or as a package of services delivered by our world-class consultants.
Be Agile. Contact Broadsword.
