Roadmap a Defense Software Supplier from CMMI Level 2 to Level 3
Overview
What this challenge is about.
Roadmap a Defense Software Supplier from CMMI Level 2 to Level 3. Advanced challenge in strategy. Developing strategies for real business problems, earn a bl...
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Design a 12-month roadmap that moves Cottonwood Defense Software from CMMI Level 2 to Level 3 and prove the approach works through a measured 3-month Risk Management pilot.
This is not a case study exercise. It is the work a consultant does when a client needs a recommendation backed by evidence. That distinction matters to every hiring manager who has seen candidates recite Porter's Five Forces and none who have built a recommendation a client would actually pay for.
When you finish, you will have something most graduates do not: a real-world deliverable, verified by Ewance, that you can show to a hiring manager and say "I did this. Here is the proof."
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Translate a maturity-model framework into a concrete, evidence-anchored gap analysis of a real organization
- Sequence a multi-area improvement program so dependencies are respected and value ships incrementally
- Design a pilot with explicit adoption and outcome metrics that proves a process change before scaling it
- Communicate a process-investment decision to an executive sponsor in defensible cost-and-timeline terms
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Aligned coursework coming soon.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- Cmmi
Apply cmmi to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Process Improvement
Apply process improvement to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Process Models
Apply process models to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Gap Analysis
Apply gap analysis to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Pilot Design
Apply pilot design to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Stakeholder Communication
Apply stakeholder communication to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
Careers
Career paths this challenge builds toward
Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles:
Engineering Process Manager
This challenge mirrors the core of the role: assessing an organization against a maturity model, planning multi-quarter improvement, and proving changes work. You leave able to run a gap analysis and sequence process work that leadership will fund.
This challenge sharpens
- cmmi
- process-improvement
- gap-analysis
Software Quality / Process Lead
Quality leads own the appraisal-readiness path and the process models behind it. By scoring process areas against evidence and designing a measured pilot, you practice exactly how a quality lead turns a framework into operating discipline.
This challenge sharpens
- process-models
- gap-analysis
- pilot-design
Technical Program Manager
Technical program managers sequence dependent workstreams and sell the plan upward. Building a dependency-aware roadmap and a sponsor memo with cost and timeline rehearses the program-management and executive-communication muscles the role demands.
This challenge sharpens
- process-improvement
- pilot-design
- stakeholder-communication