Stages for Defense

Optimizing Process Management

Higher Maturity in System Life Cycles

Stages for Defense enables you to define and enact processes, control their standard compliance and measure process performance. This efficiently stabilizes the foundations for high maturity in complex system engineering environments.

Get There With Stages!

Establish DoD Standard Compliant Processes

Define, publish, analyze and optimize all your organizational processes and assets.
Take advantage of best practices, examples and guidelines.
Efficiently identify gaps to DoD relevant standards.

Efficiently Implement Multiple Models

Reduce the complexity and effort imposed by your multi-model environment.
Improve support of end-to-end lifecycles using one integrated CMMI model.

Manage Processes, Projects & Programs

Establish the project's defined processes based on your OSSP.
Integrate the project's processes with your existing tool environment.
Effectively manage and track the status of your work products and deliverables.
Manage your processes, projects and programs in accordance with selected models.
Measure and analyze the performance of your processes, projects and programs.

Reduce Costs For Preparing & Performing Appraisals

Increase quality of your SCAMPI process by controlled tailoring to scope and level of appraisal.
Reduce SCAMPI preparation time in projects to be appraised due to automated PIID generation.
Efficiently manage multi-appraisal events from a centralized repository.

Sample Standards

CMMI®-DEV, -ACQ, -SVC
DoD 5000.01 & 5000.02
DoD-AF
AS 9100
ISO 14000
Six Sigma
SCRUM

Process Management With Stages - How Can You Benefit?

1. Establish Your OSSP

Define and manage a consistent and integrated set of process assets in order to efficiently establish and maintain your OSSP. Use a flexible, definable process architecture that fits your organization ( i.e. EITVOX, RASIC, EPC or SPEM). Save time by reusing best practice processes provided by industry experts.

2. Track Multi-Model Compliance

Simply map your OSSP against reference models and industry or organizational standards. Reduce the implementation effort for example by mapping your OSSP to CMMI-DEV and then identify the gaps to other standards like AS 9100, DOD-AF, using pre-defined compliance maps.

3. Set-Up The Project's Defined Processes

Set-up the project's defined processes tailored from the OSSP using pre-defined tailoring guidelines. As a result processes are optimized to meet project requirements and used as the basis for project planning i.e. through export to MS Project. Automatically generated diagrams are instantly updated, and provide understandable process flows for project members.

4. Integrate Project Processes & Work Products

Implement processes as workflows for work products and connect process guidelines with practical reality. Manage work products located and distributed throughout several external repositories, simplifying your work environment. Provide project members with fast and direct access to the actual project results and their status.

5. Prepare and Perform Appraisals

Significantly save time in preparing appraisals. Use traceability from the model to the project's work products and process assets to automatically generate PIID's into an Excel format. Flexible use of this spreadsheet enables further modifications as well as reuse in appraisal tools.

6. Measure & Track Performance

A best practice metrics catalog facilitates the selection of measurements aligned with your organization's business goals. Visualize multiple levels of aggregation through dynamic reports based on data extracted from different sources. Establish your measurements repository in order to analyze and track the performance of your projects and perform statistical optimization of your processes.