TCS gets world’s first PCMM Level 4 certificate

BANGALORE: India's largest software export house, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS),

has become the first and only firm in the world to have two of its centres, in

Gurgaon and Noida, to be assessed at PCMM Level 4 (Software and People

Capability Maturity Model) (Ver 2).

People-CMM Level 4 indicates that TCS’ two centres at Gurgaon and Noida

have adopted measurable practices by empowering workgroups and managing the

capability and performance of their workforce quantitatively.

The Software and People Capability Maturity Models (PCMM) has been designed

by US-based Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and is

a roadmap for implementing workforce practices that continuously improve the

capability of an organization.

The PCMM model is a step forward the Software CMM and assesses the most

critical and indispensable component of the software industry, its people. Dr

Bill Curtis, Principal Architect of PCMM and his team, carried out the

assessment and announced the results today.

Level 4 practices provide a better input to the organization’s management

for taking strategic people practices related decisions, pro-actively manage the

capability of the organization thereby helping the organization improve the

performance of its projects and deliver timely and best-in-class solutions to

its clients located globally.

TCS chief executive officer S Ramadorai said, "This remarkable

achievement is an affirmation of the fact that TCS has the best talent and is

outstanding in terms of people capability.  This is a milestone in TCS’

continuous quest for excellence and in line with our commitment to quality,

processes and methodologies leading to superior value proposition to its

customers."

"TCS centres at Noida and Gurgaon were able to achieve a P-CMM Level 4

capability by capitalizing on their software CMM Level 5 capabilities and

extending this approach to the implementation of their workforce

practices," said Dr Bill Curtis, Principal Architect of PCMM.

Commenting on the achievement, TCS executive vice president Phiroz Vandrevala

said, "This is indeed a very proud moment for us at TCS and for the Indian

IT Industry."