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Is your organization ready to start SPI program? Components of CMM . Maturity Questionnaire. Level (2) Maturity Questionnaire. References.
Do you have resources? (SPEG, SQA, SCM,...) These resources should be consistently provided and adequate to perform the activities identified by the model.
Components of CMM
Maturity Levels Key Process Areas. Key Practices. Maturity Questionnaires.
Components of CMM
The first three components Maturity Levels,Key Process Areas & Key Practices were discussed in the previous sessions. In this session we are going to concentrate on Maturity Questionnaires. They are questions that sample the key practices in each key process area of the CMM .
Maturity Questionnaire/Example
At Maturity Level 2 Repeatable .
Key Process Area : Software Project Planning Key Practice : Estimate Project Size. A Maturity question is Do you use a documented procedure to estimate software size?
Maturity Questionnaire
The Maturity Questionnaire is a springboard for an assessment teams visit. Answers to questions identify software process strengths and weakness. Questions are designed to determine the presence or absence of the various key practices. These questionnaire is called an assessment instrument/ diagnostic tool which is used at initial steps.
Maturity Questionnaire
Questions are not open-ended but are intended to obtain a quantified results from the following answers (Yes - No - Dont Know - N/A). These questions are administrated by the Assessment Team Leader. It is the team leader responsibility to customize the Maturity questionnaire according to the assessment objectives and scope of defining findings A more detailed and open-ended questioning process begins after the responses to the maturity questionnaire have been analyzed.
Administer Questionnaire
Pre-Onsite Activities
Administer Questionnaire
Information about the organizations software processes is collected from selected members using the SEI Maturity Questionnaire. This information is used to provide assessment team an overview of the organizations process capability. Comments on questions provide more value to the team than the Yes/No responses.
References:
CMU/SEI-94-SR-007 (Maturity Questionnaire) David Zubrow, William Hays, Jane Siegel, Dennis Goldenson CMU/SEI-93-TR-024 (SW-CMM) Mark C. Paulk, Bill Curtis, Mary Beth Chrissis ,Charles V. Weber. CMU/SEI-93-TR-025 (Key Practices of CMM) Mark C. Paulk,Charles V. Weber, Suzanne M. Garcia,Mary Beth Chrissis, Marihn Bush. CMU/SEI-96-TR-007 (CBA-IPI)Method Description: Donna K. Dunaway, Steve Masters.