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TMMi-Based Health Checks

Software Quality Solutions. Tailored For You

A personalised, contextualised software testing health check that goes far beyond standard frameworks — uncovering the specific gaps, risks, and opportunities unique to your organisation.

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TMMi Foundation Certified
ISTQB Certified
Level 5Optimising
Level 4Measured
Level 3Defined
Level 2Managed
Level 1Initial

TMMi Maturity Framework

20+
Years in Software Testing
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Industry Sectors
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About the Consultant

Two Decades of Software Testing Expertise

With over 20 years of hands-on experience across software testing, quality engineering, and test management, the Baring practice brings rare depth to every engagement. Career experience spans financial services, housing, telecommunications, and government sectors — providing invaluable cross-industry perspective.

Holding TMMi Foundation and ISTQB certifications, this practice goes beyond tick-box assessments. Every health check is designed to understand the specific organisational context — culture, constraints, team dynamics, and strategic goals — before a single recommendation is made.

Test Strategy & Architecture
TMMi Process Improvement
Test Team Leadership
Agile & DevOps Testing
Risk-Based Test Approaches
Quality Metrics & Reporting
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What We Offer

Services Built Around Your Reality

Every engagement starts with listening. The assessment is shaped around your organisation before any evaluation begins.

Testing Health Check

A thorough, end-to-end evaluation of your testing capability across people, processes, tools, and culture. Goes beyond compliance to understand the real state of quality in your organisation.

TMMi Maturity Assessment

Our testing health checks are undertaken against the TMMi framework, identifying your current level across all process areas and providing clear, prioritised improvement recommendations.

Improvement Roadmap

Translate assessment findings into a concrete, time-bound roadmap. Prioritised by risk, effort, and value — giving leadership a clear path from current state to target maturity.

Contextual Intake Workshop

Before any assessment begins, a structured discovery session ensures every evaluation is grounded in your specific domain, risk profile, regulatory context, and team capabilities.

Team Capability Review

An assessment of testing team skills, knowledge distribution, and development needs. Identifies capability gaps and provides a targeted learning and development framework.

Metrics & Reporting Audit

Evaluate the quality and utility of your test reporting, metrics, and KPIs. Ensure decision-makers receive meaningful quality signals rather than vanity numbers.

The Baring Difference

Beyond the Framework. Into Your World.

TMMi provides an excellent foundation, but no two organisations are alike. Industry, culture, team size, delivery cadence, and risk appetite all shape what "good" actually looks like for you.

Every Baring engagement begins with deep contextual discovery — before a single process area is evaluated. Recommendations are always practical, achievable, and grounded in your specific constraints.

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Contextualised, not generic

Assessment criteria are weighted and calibrated based on your sector, delivery model, and risk profile — not off-the-shelf checklists.

02

People-first approach

Test quality is ultimately a human challenge. Interviews, workshops, and team observations surface the real picture beyond documents and tools.

03

Actionable findings

Reports are written for decision-makers and practitioners alike. No jargon, no padding — just clear findings, clear impact, and clear next steps.

04

Independent perspective

No tooling partnerships, no hidden agendas. Recommendations are based solely on what is right for your organisation.

How It Works

A Structured Path to Clarity

1

Initial Survey & Discovery

Complete the online assessment survey to give us a preliminary picture of your organisation, testing landscape, and goals. This shapes the discovery phase.

2

Contextual Intake Workshop

A focused 2–3 hour workshop to deeply understand your specific context: sector, team structure, delivery model, constraints, and what success looks like for you.

3

Health Check Assessment

Structured interviews, documentation review, and process observation across all relevant TMMi process areas — calibrated to your context and maturity target.

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Findings & Roadmap Report

A clear, practical report covering current state, specific gaps, prioritised recommendations, and a realistic improvement roadmap — ready to present to leadership.

The Foundation

Why TMMi?

The Test Maturity Model integration (TMMi) is the most rigorous and widely recognised framework for assessing and improving software testing practices. Developed by the TMMi Foundation and adopted globally, it provides a structured, evidence-based approach to understanding testing capability.

Where TMMi ends, Baring begins. The framework defines what good looks like — our approach helps you understand why you are where you are, and precisely what it will take to move forward in your context.

Level 5
Optimising
Continuous testing process improvement
Level 4
Measured
Testing is quantitatively managed
Level 3
Defined
Organisation-wide testing standards exist
Level 2
Managed
Basic testing processes are established
Level 1
Initial
Testing is ad-hoc and unmanaged
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Curious Where Your Organisation Stands?

Our online survey takes around 10 minutes and gives us the context needed to have a genuinely useful initial conversation — no boilerplate, no generic output.

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