An effort for a “national brand name”

This idea originated from Mr. Nguyen Thanh Nam when he was still CEO of FPT Software. He has always wanted to build a “software village” in Vietnam, and has introduced the concept of “CMMi village.” In his opinion, Vietnamese software companies should make use of the “free” time during this crisis to build and apply CMMi.

Afterwards, at the “2009 challenges and prospects for Vietnamese software industry” conference organized by Vietnam Software Association (VINASA) on April 23, 2009, FPT Software officially proposed the idea of transferring experience in deploying CMMi-5 through Ministry of Information and Communications.

- Why did FPT Software decide to introduce its experience to the “public’?

As a pioneering enterprise with first successes, FPT Software has always wished to share its experience with other software companies. This action can be regarded as a contribution to the society to together build a Vietnamese “software village” with a national brand name and competitive capacities in the world.

The concept “In trading, u should have friends and alliances” still applies in the economic situation today. Any enterprise, how good it is, will find it difficult to develop well without being in a strong enough “alliance.” I hope that other enterprises can understand this message and try their best for the “national brand name” - Vietnam.

- How valuable is this document set to FPT Software?

This is a valuable asset of FPT Software, which is the result of the intellect and effort of the staff of FPT Software during the past 8 years.

Having a CMMi - 5 certificate proves the capability of learning and applying processes under international standards, being the same level with top Indian companies. This has increased the self-confidence for FPT Software in the outsourcing field and competition with other Indian companies.

In addition to helping FPT Software increase the quality of software projects and better manage software projects, this certificate has been a very effective marketing tool for first-time clients of FPT Software. CMMi-5 is truly the first “passport” of FPT Software when joining big markets in the world.

- In your own opinion, how will software enterprises “welcome” this sharing?

When FPT Software pioneered in deploying CMMi-5, we spent 8 years and lots of efforts to find solutions, carry out trials, and in the end we had drawn out very useful experience.

FPT Software’s experience concluded in this document set will help enterprises shorten time and reduce energy spent to successfully deploy and apply CMMi. With this tool, software companies will have better production processes, which can improve quality and productivity, and help improve their images in marketing.

- This document set needs to be used flexibly due to the different natures and scales of Vietnamese software enterprises.

This idea was immediately welcomed by enterprises at the 3^rd meeting of software export companies and at the “2009 challenges and prospects for Vietnamese software industry” conference as mentioned above.

We hope that Vietnamese software enterprise community will warmly welcome this document set.

However, in what way this document set is used depends on the operation of each enterprise. This document set is under the form of open source codes. Enterprises may adapt it to make it suitable with themselves. After the publicization, may the community contribute to make it better?

- How will FPT Software support so that Vietnamese enterprises can successfully deploy this program?

FPT Software will cooperate with Ministry of Information and Communications to organize conferences to improve the understanding of enterprises about the process and deployment of CMMi-5.

We will provide online consultancy through the question-answer forum at the information portal of Ministry of Information and Communications. Besides, during the process of using documents and applying FPT Software’s experience, if enterprises need deep consultancy, we will do as they wish.

Milestones of the program:

· July 10, 2009: Signed a cooperation agreement with Vietnam Ministry of Information and Communications.

· August 15: Provide Standard document system and present, instruct about documents, software systems and their advantages.

· From August to October: Organize seminars about CMMi.

· October 30: Provide Software system of CMMi process under the form of open source codes.

· December 31: Provide instruction documents about installing the software system mentioned above.

· January 2010: Overall transference ceremony.

· Carry out consultancy about the use of CMMi document set after the overall transference ceremony.

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