Our experiences in the range of industries and sectors in which we operate, demonstrate the portability of the quality principles we use in our consultancy work. Pure
quality and information management practices can be applied in most domain contexts when applied in a modular fashion. The customer operational benefits of this approach result in QMS and ISMS
Frameworks that require low maintenance, even as the standards evolve over time. This is the result of many years of use of the Capability Maturity Model frameworks that now underpin many of the
structural models used by the international standards bodies.
Looking at new suppliers of software development services can be risky, unless you can gain insight to their strengths and weaknesses, in terms of process
maturity.
When assessing suppliers, the maturity you seek can vary according to your own strengths, and according to your experiences in previous projects.
Some suppliers sacrifice quality to meet schedules, some sacrifice scope for testability, some trap you into paying for change requests to cover the gaps in your
requirements, some go from requirement to code without any architectural integrity. Current security trends now require suppliers to contribute to the security of products and services, and their
operational use. The right standards need to be cascaded down the supply chain and their implementations verified for compliance.