Appraisals are used to obtain two kinds of benefits. One of them is improvement in the business processes or in the process of self-assessment and the other is to evaluate the processes. The study aims to cover a research in the areas including (i) understanding the basic difference between assessments and appraisals (ii) study the purpose, scope, benefits, issues and classes of CMMI appraisal (iii) study and select the appraisal methodology particularly for Research and Development organization (iv) plan and prepare to conduct the SCAMPI appraisal in R&D organization and (v) report the findings, ANOVA analysis and recommendation after conducting the appraisal in the Research and Development organization.