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ONION consulting services for IT Quality Management

The term IT Quality Management identifies the practices applied by an IT organization in order to organize, manage, monitor and improve the quality of software production processes and of the software, with the goal to develop IT solutions aligned to customer needs and to generate value by means of the developed software.

The IT Quality Management services offered by ONION include:

CMMI^® and Software Process Improvement
- Support on the application of the CMMI^® model for the improvement of software development processes
- Gap analysis with respect to the Staged and Continuous representations
- Definition of business cases for the introduction of CMMI^® practices
- Coordination of process improvement projects
- Consultancy in re-engineering & tailoring of processes
- Consultancy in specific areas
  - For example: Requirements Management, Project Management
- Consultancy in technologies that support software processes
- Scouting of technologies and innovation
- Support to the certification process and to preparation for SCAMPI appraisals class C, B and A.
ISO 9001 and specific industry standards
- Consultancy in ISO 9001:2000 certification
- Coordination of ISO 9001:2000 certification projects
- Management and update of Quality Systems
- ISO 9001 / CMMI alignment for Quality Systems
- Consultancy in specific Pharmacy and Transport standards
Measurement and Metrics
- Consultancy in project and process metrics
- Consultancy/implementation of process measurement systems and metrics repositories, in particular related to the Balanced Scorecard.
- Coordination of metrics introduction/evolution projects

The services above are delivered by a team of expert consultants and experienced practitioners, with a deep and broad experience in several areas, with the following distinctive characteristics:

Employment of high profile professionals, some of which have contributed to the development of reference international methodologies for the IT industry since the eighties;
Specific experience in the design of process measurement systems with the purpose of quality improvement and support to improvement projects;
Proven experience in the proposal and design of technological improvements paths, to support organizational and methodological improvement projects;
Collaboration with centers of excellence in the research and delivery Software Engineering services.