Services for HR Innovation & Continuous Improvement
People CMM & SCAMPI Appraisals

Content: | SpaceMinds - SEI Partner for the People CMM | Organizational Change Management & Consulting | Indispensable training for managers and HR professionals | Organizational & HR process appraisals | Recommended readings & links |

SpaceMinds - SEI Partner for the People CMM

SpaceMinds is the first spanish company SEI Partner for the People CMM, offering official services related to People CMM and SCAMPI with People CMM Appraisals. Yan Bello, president and founder of SpaceMinds, is the first cuban-spanish person accredited by Carnegie Mellon University – Software Engineering Institute as Authorized Instructor for the People CMM® (“Introduction to the People CMM®” training course) and Authorized SCAMPI Lead Appraiser (for the People CMM®). Therefore, SpaceMinds and Yan Bello has been pioneers in the use of People CMM, leading the introduction and application of the model with consulting services and the offering of the Carnegie Mellon-SEI Official "Introduction to the People CMM" training course. The interest and acceptance that People CMM generates among managers, executives and professionals who learn and/or use this repertoire of "best practices" becomes evident with these People CMM Testimonials.

SpaceMinds' service area: "People CMM & SCAMPI Appraisals: HR Innovation and Continuous Improvement" groups a high added-value service offer for companies and organizations where Human Capital, knowledge and people are the most important assets. This area includes the services described below.

Organizational Change Management & Consulting

People CMM is a “state-of-the-art” organizational change management model that can be a great reference for an organization willing to improve the capability and effectiveness of its workforce. One of the key features of People CMM is that it offers a roadmap for a progresive transformation of an organization's culture, from a people management to a continuous improvement culture.

SpaceMinds provides an extensive experience in the introduction and successful implementation of People CMM best practices in an organization.

With our consulting services we can help your organization identify key improvement areas (with SCAMPI with People CMM Appraisals) and assist in the definition, launch and execution of an integrated continuous improvement program (with the SpaceMinds® Method/Aproach as presented in several international congresses & conferences).

Using the SpaceMinds® M/A, organizational change is organized, managed and led proactively, developing synergies that generate a positive actitude toward change by most members of the organization who will embrace it and facilitate actual improvement and implementation.

Indispensable training for managers and HR professionals

People CMM offers a rich and solid body of knowledge for executive and management education as well as technical training of HR professionals. Considering the systemic view of People CMM, as well as the solid experiences in which the practices of the model are based, there is little doubt, if any, that a training program on the fundamentals and practices of the model provides great value to any professional who reach out to this management model.

For this reason, People CMM can be conceived as a key reference for effective training of HR professionals, people managers, executives, line-managers and people in general who are involved or interested in implementing continuous improvement programs in their organizations.

As an SEI Partner for the People CMM, SpaceMinds offers the official Carnegie Mellon-SEI "Introduction to the People CMM" training course in "public" and "onsite/in-Company" settings. You can read these People CMM Testimonials for first-hand opinions from participants in SpaceMinds sponsored "Introduction to the People CMM" training courses.

Organizational & HR process appraisals

The SCAMPI Method (Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement) is a process developed by Carnegie Mellon University's SEI to offer quality benchmarkings with regards to CMMI® models and People CMM. SCAMPI includes three "flavors": SCAMPI A, B and C, facilitating the evaluation an organization can perform using People CMM as a reference model, by applying different levels of rigor and organizational coverage.
From a simple "proof of concept/intent" of defined processes (SCAMPI C), to a validation of the rollout approach in the organization (SCAMPI B), to even the rigorous evaluation or benchmarking of process institutionalization (SCAMPI A, including the posibility of obtaining a rating of the organizational maturity level).

To perform a SCAMPI with People CMM appraisal or evaluation, it is necessary to use the services of an Authorized SCAMPI Lead Appraiser for the People CMM sponsored by an SEI Partner.

As SEI Partner for the People CMM, and being Yan Bello an active SCAMPI Lead Appraiser authorized by the SEI, SpaceMinds offers the SCAMPI Appraisals services all over the world.


See SCAMPI Appraisals with People CMM

Recommended readings & links

For additional information, check these out:

• Bello Méndez, Yan. (2008). “Navigating the Labyrinth of Modern HR. The People CMM® as a Guide to Continuous Workforce Improvement and Innovation”. June 2008, Munich. Germany. – Presentation in the SEPG Europe 2008 Conference.
• Bello Méndez, Yan. Yerkes, Leslie (2007). Creating Lasting Change: Tools and techniques for effective consulting. Proceedings of PMI Global Congress Latin America 2007, Cancún – México.
• Bello Méndez, Yan. (2007). People CMM®: Una Guía para la Mejora Continua de RRHH. AEDIPE Catalunya. Mayo-Septiembre 2007, Barcelona.
• Bello Méndez, Yan. (2007). Recorriendo el Laberinto de los RRHH: El People CMM® como Guía para la Mejora Continua de RRHH. AEDIPE Catalunya. Septiembre 2007, Barcelona.
• Bello Méndez, Yan. (2007). Developing Project Management Competency and a Participative-Empowering Culture: Synergies between the PMBOK® Guide, the PMCD Framework and the People CMM®. Proceedings of PMI Global Congress EMEA 2007, Budapest – Hungary.
• Book: Curtis, Bill, et. al. (2001). “The People Capability Maturity Model®: Guidelines for Improving the Workforce”, Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley.

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