Standards | IDEAL
Concept
This organizational improvement model serves as a roadmap for initiating, planning, and implementing improvement actions. This model forms an infrastructure to guide organizations in planning and implementing an effective software process improvement program.

The IDEAL model, as is named for the five phases it describes: Initiating, Diagnosing, Establishing, Acting, and Learning, provides a usable, understandable approach to continuous improvement by outlining the steps necessary to establish a successful improvement program. The model provides a disciplined engineering approach for improvement, focuses on managing the improvement program, and establishes the foundation for a long-term improvement strategy.

 
 
Enterprise Optimus
Enterprise Optimus provides an effective approach to adopt to improved software engineering processes, methods, and tools with its Change Management, Risk Management and Issue Management features thus allowing enterprises to follow a specialized, systematic approach for managing the technology adoption life cycle.

  • Initiating: Laying the groundwork for a successful improvement effort
  • Diagnosing: Determining where you are relative to where you want to be
  • Establishing: Planning the specifics of how you will reach your destination
  • Acting: Doing the work according to the plan
  • Learning: Learning from the experience and improving your ability to adopt new technologies in the future