What is People CMM?
The People Capability Maturity Model® (People CMM®) is a state-of-the-art organizational change management model designed to help organizations improve their workforce capability and effectiveness.
People CMM offers a maturity improvement framework that organizations can use to manage and improve their actions to attract, motivate and retain the best qualified professionals. The practices included in the model can help an organization become an employer of choice and assure that its workforce possesses the required competencies to achieve the organization’s current and future business objectives.
People CMM : An inventory of best-practices
People CMM includes 5 maturity levels and 22 process areas grouped into four threads: Developing Individual Capability; Building Workgroups and Culture; Motivating and Managing Performance; and Shaping the Workforce.
Each maturity level of the People CMM defines an evolutionary step in the journey of an organization
from inconsistent, ad-hoc practices to effective leadership and change management.
Each process area of People CMM includes a set of practices oriented to achieve the goals of the area, including implementation practices, as well as the so-called institutionalization practices, which ensure that changes introduced with the implementation of the model last in time.
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People CMM : A guide for organizational change management
People CMM provides a systemic view of an organization. This is inmediatly evident by observing the relationship among the different process areas and the practices that these include. Additionally, other model elements also reinforce and are based in this systemic view. One remarkable one is in the structure of the model itself. It is the way that the model deals with organizational change management through the practices of institutionalization.
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Institucionalization is the group of actions that an organization must perform to ensure that a process (in general changes or improvements) are used and last in time. These actions are based on the fore mentioned systemic view of the organization, where all “parts” play an important role in the organization's performance.
Institucionalization is addressed by the goals and practices included for this purpose in each process area of the model. These goals and practices identify the desired states and needed conditions for the defined practices to perdure in the organization so they can become “repetible”.
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People CMM : A training program indispensible 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.
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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.
For education and training in the People CMM, Carnegie Mellon University - SEI offer directly and through its partner network for the People CMM (SpaceMinds being one of them), a training offer consisting of the official "Introduction to the People CMM" training course.
Additionally, the SEI delivers the "Intermediate Concepts of the People CMM" training course, which can be attended by people fullfiling a set of requirements including successful completion of the introductory course.
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.
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People CMM : A reference for appraising organizational and HR processes
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.
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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.
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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 SEPG Europe 2007 Conference, Amsterdam – The Netherlands.
• 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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