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Rapid Performance Improvement (RPI)

Methodology Overview

RPI is a systems/software engineering improvement methodology that focuses on improving product development processes that relate to achieving top-priority business/stakeholder goals and/or fixing critical development problems.

RPI is a comprehensive but practical performance-based process improvement methodology that:

  • Is founded on proven quality management principles (find out more)
  • Aligns improvement efforts with business needs and current development problems (find out more)
  • Achieves real results quickly (performance and process maturity) (find out more)
  • Streamlines process definition and documentation (find out more)
  • Gains and sustains greater consensus and buy-in among sponsors, management, and all affected groups (find out more)
  • Helps organizations quickly integrate improvement of multiple process models (such as Software CMM, CMMI, TPI) and process standards (such as IEEE, ISO) into a single seamless program (find out more)
  • Simplifies transition to newer process models and standards (for example, moving from SW-CMM to CMMI)

RPI achieves these results through:

  • focused interactive workshop sessions for most method activities (find out more)
  • the use of a reference process architecture and associated reference processes (find out more)

RPI News & Events

Version 2 of RPI Methodology
now includes reference processes for SW-CMM(sm), CMMI(sm), and TPI(R). It also includes an SEI ARC Class C compliant appraisal method and is compliant with CMMI OPF and OPD.

Upcoming Conferences

2005 EuroSTAR Conference- Fran O'Hara will give a presentation " Process Improvement Technologies That Deliver Measurable Added Value". Click here to get information about the conference.

Award Nomination!!!!

Fran O'Hara is one of five speakers nominated for the 2005 LogicaCMG TripleStar Award! for the upcoming RPI presentation at 2005 EuroSTAR as "the most original contribution to the conference, i.e., the most innovative, reusable and pragmatic contribution." Click here to read about the nomination.

Recent Conferences

2005 European SEPG Conference- Fran O'Hara gave a presentation on the application of the RPI Methodology in Risk Management. Click here to get information about the conference.

2005 SEPG Conference - Fran O'Hara and Jim Hart gave two tutorials on the RPI Methodology.

Click here to download the entire conference sessions.

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