Specializing in Simplifying:

Process Improvement
 Process and Product Quality Assurance
 CMMI-DEV & CMMI-SVC Compliance
 CMMI V3.0 Compliance


Please Note: Site being upgraded, November++ 2023
Some links, graphics, etc., repaired. Others still in progress. Many apologies for any inconvenience.

Abridge Technology is a Virginia-based company, founded in 1996, that provides appraisals, consulting, training, and support services and products in the areas of Agile, CMMI V2.x, CMMI V3.0 (CMMI-DEV and CMMI-SVC) and selected ISO standards including 9000, 20000, and 27000. This support includes official CMMI-based appraisals (e.g., Benchmarks and Evaluations), official CMMI training (CMMI V2.x and V3.0), and consulting, training, and workshops in project management, risk management, measurement and quantitative techniques, quality assurance, process definition and modeling, process improvement, organizational change, and related areas.

Abridge Technology is a CMMI Institute Partner. Abridge Technology is licensed to provide full appraisal services including Benchmark Appraisals, Ratings, and registration with the CMMI Institute. As part of this, Abridge Technology is licensed and certified to provide the latest CMMI V3.0 CMMI training.


Links to a selected set of downloadable presentations from Abridge Technology are available at: Presentations and Tutorials


Upcoming Classes for 2023 and 2024

Abridge Technology regularly conducts classes of the CMMI Institute's official CMMI 3.0 courses. Upon request, one or more of these courses can be held onsite at your location. We also periodically hold public offerings of the CMMI. All these courses can be taught using virtual collaboration environments (e.g., Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Adobe Connect, etc.)

These official classes cover CMMI 3.0 for Development and CMMI 3.0 for Services.

In addition to being delivered onsite at your location, the above CMMI courses are also occasionally offered at public locations. The upcoming 2023 and 2024 public course schedules are regularly updated with current class offerrings posted here.



Abridge Technology specializes in helping you leverage the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) to improve organizational and project capability and efficiency. Abridge Technology has assisted industry and government with Software CMM-based process improvement since 1992, Acquisition CMM-based process improvement since 1996, and CMMI-based process improvement since 2000.

Abridge Technology also helps organizations adopting and implementing other engineering and quality frameworks and methods including Agile Methods, ISO 9001 (Quality Management), ISO 20000-1 (Services), ISO 27001 (Information Security), ISO/IEC 15504 (SPICE), and measurement-focused organizational evaluation and improvement.

Abridge Technology has extensive experience in successful process improvement in all types of organizations and environments ranging from very small organizations (less than 10 employees) to very large (more than 100,000 employees), covering a wide variety of industrial organizations ranging from pure software organizations to hardware-intensive systems organizations to internal Information Technology organizations. We have experience at all levels of Civil Government (Federal, State, and County) and with a variety of Defense Organizations in both classified and unclassified environments.

For a detailed look at the capabilities and history of Abridge Technology, as reflected by our conference presentations and publications, please use the publications tab at the top of this page (or the link, below). Also, you may find other useful information, including some free tools, under the other tabs available on this site.

If you are interested in receiving consulting or training support relating to software project management, software process improvement, software engineering, or organizational change management, or if you just have a question you'd like answered, please feel free to contact us.

Check back periodically for increased content. You'll likely find an improved set of links to project management related freeware and shareware, links to related papers and presentations, and links to high-quality project management websites.


(Still under construction: CMMI 3.0 Search Utility. Interface, logic, and data structures still under design/development/testing.)


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