ITRI announced an IP Multimedia Subsystem

The Information and Communications Research Labs (ICL) of the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) announced on the 22nd of March that it had passed the Capability Maturity Model Integration ( CMMI) Maturity Level 3 (CMMI-SE/SW v1.1 – Maturity Level 3) certification. The certification was given by Software Engineering Institute (SEI) of Carnegie Mellon University, the inventor of the CMMI and the most prestigious CMMI certifier in the world.

The scope of this certification covers both software development and system integration. . In terms of this scope, the ICL of ITRI is the first in the nation to pass Level 3 certification in this category.

The Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) for systems and software is a process improvement framework that organizations can use to improve their ability to build and maintain quality products and services. Believing in CMMI’s credibility in improving R&D process management. the ICL has first launched the CMMI process since 2002 and passed Level 2 certification in 2003.

General Director of ICL Dr. Bao-Shuh Paul Lin said, "Passing Level 3 is an evidence that the ICL has good quality management of large scale projects through various aspects from customer needs investigation, interviews, design, development, and quality control. As an example of quality management, the ICL executed Mobile Number Portability System Development Project in the framework of CMMI process, and successfully supported Taiwan’s first Number Portability telecom service deployede since 2005." The ICL continues to work for CMMI higher level certification and also shares the experience with the other labs of ITRI and the private industry so as to help enhance the overall software development integration capabilities of Taiwan industry.

The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) of Carnegie Mellon University awarded CMMI Level 3certificate to the ICL of the ITRI.. From left: Dr. Sheng Ling Chou (Deputy General Director of ICL), Dr. Bao-Shuh Paul Lin (General Director of ICL), Ms. Roselyn Whitney(SEI of Carnegie Mellon), Professor C.K. Hung (Cheng Kung University).