Motiva and myTeam: Process Consulting and Tools

Motiva provides products and services for improving cost, schedule and quality performance in development and management of software systems and products.

Motiva offers process consulting services to help organizations form and implement an improvement plan tailored to their business goals and improvement objectives. Process consulting services include Process Capability Assessments to assess groups' strengths and opportunities, Process Definition to develop new or improve existing processes and Process Implementation to help ensure new processes get practiced.

Motiva has extensive experience helping clients achieve process capabilities that meet their business requirements: such as complying with standards (e.g. ISO/IEC, IEEE, ANSI) applicable to their industry, achieving a desired CMMI® level, installing/improving specific practices, etc.

Motiva understands the importance of automation and its positive impact on performance. Motiva's myTeam™ product provides automated support for management and engineering practices instrumental to project successes and high organizational process performance capability. In addition, myTeam™ enables quick and easy implementation of industry standard improvement model best practices and methods, including CMMI®, TSP/PSP™, ISO, Agile, etc. myTeam™ automates the capture, storage and analysis of valuable data that supports continuous improvement by individuals, teams and entire organizations.

Motiva offers a number of courses covering software development and management best practices. See Training and Mentoring information, for a list of courses. Motiva can also provide custom on-site training and mentoring that may be needed to rollout new processes, incorporate myTeam™ into your company processes, etc.

Motiva, as an authorized Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Transition Partner, can provide the needed services for creating motivated teams that plan and track their work, establish goals, and own their processes and plans. Motiva trains executives, managers, and engineers in the skills they need to manage, track, and report software development teams' progress using the SEI's Team Software Process™ (TSP™) and Personal Software Process™ (PSP™) methodologies. Motiva brings to these services over 10 years experience training hundreds of PSP™ engineers and launching/coaching many TSP™ teams.

The PSP™ methodology focuses on process improvement of the individual software developer. Using skills learned in PSP™ Training, engineers develop software using improved methods, enabling them to deliver high quality software in a timely manner. TSP™ extends PSP™ by realizing the potential of teams. A TSP™ Launch is a structured, working session used by teams to plan out their project work. TSP™ project teams strive to consistently produce high quality software on schedule and within budget. Watts Humphrey of the SEI developed these two technologies as an extension to his earlier Capability Maturity Model CMM® work. Thus, the use of these technologies addresses a significant number of CMMI® practice areas.

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