Natural SPI, a small, woman-owned business, provides customized process improvement consulting to its clients. The quality of these services is assured in the following ways:

1. SCAMPI^SM Appraisal Quality - Natural SPI offers SEI-authorized SCAMPI^SM class A, B, and C appraisal lead services and appraisal team member services. If Natural SPI is performing appraisal lead services for a client, appraisal verification is also performed. The NSPI^SM lead or another NSPI^SM appraisal team member uses the NSPI^SM developed appraisal verification workbook to check satisfaction of all requirements listed in the SCAMPI^SM Method Definition Document (MDD). The appraisal team lead is kept informed of the verification results, so corrections can be made during the performance of the SCAMPI^SM if necessary.

2. Process Development Quality - The most frequent service provided by Natural SPI is to assist organizations in the development of their processes and process assets. Because NSPI^SM has experience in many types of organizations, large, small, commercial, government, services, and development, the consultants have the experience to select and customize the best-fit process assets for the organization. The organization gets the highest quality process assets to fit their specific needs.

3. Model Mapping Quality - When an organization is preparing for a SCAMPI^SM A, the organization-s objective evidence is mapped to the practices in the CMMI-. Natural SPI provides coaching to help organizations develop this expertise in house, and follow up verification to ensure these mappings are valid and complete enough to support an appraisal team-s needs. The NSPI^SM consultants have significant SCAMPI^SM Class A, B, and C experience, enabling them to make judgment decisions about the organization-s coverage of the model practices.

4. Process Improvement Plan Quality - Natural SPI believes process improvement efforts should be run as process improvement projects. The process improvement plan template provided to our clients is a result of 15 + years in managing process improvement projects and the best practices applicable from the Project Management Institutes (PMI) body of knowledge (PMBOK). Natural SPI has PMI certified Project Management Professionals (PMP) on staff that typically help our clients create their plans.

5. Estimating and Proposal Quality - Natural SPI uses data from past consulting engagements when developing estimates and proposals. The estimates break down the types of consulting to be provided and expected travel and material costs. An NSPI^SM-developed tool is used to manage and document all of the factors that go into an estimate, making it a stable, repeatable and accurate process.

6. Overall Consulting Quality - Natural SPI conducts and uses client feedback forms to adjust the type and style of consulting provided to our clients, continuously improving the overall quality of the services provided.