Given that CMMI high maturity level and six sigma organizations typically use statistics packages in assisting them to manage and adjust business trends and flows, I thought our readership might find these links to open source stats packages to be of interest. N.B.: Minitab and SPSS, perhaps the pre-eminent software packages in this arena, are both highly functional, broadly used and extremely expensive; both are also biased to the windows...

Of late I have spent a great deal of time working on the following premise: Can you use Six Sigma to achieve CMMI ML3 and higher? The answer I have arrived at is an unequivocal, YES. To prove my point I just completed a Master Black Belt project that precisely attends to this assumption. Contact PEP for more information! …mark