Jeff, I agree with all of your points. I would add to your last statement. One of the unintended consequences of awarding maturity ratings was that it would...
Pat, Rob, Larry, Jeff Agree with the points you have all made. Any dispatching system would have to assume all Lead Appraisers are the same (assuming all...
Pat, I am glad you agree that SCAMPI B and C for improvement and SCAMPI A for to "get a level" Which makes complete sense in fact, once an organization really...
Hi, I looking for advice about how to encourage or foster process improvement. Basic stuff. I hear that at companies that are well on the path (Level 3 or...
Ed, I hate to mention it, not only are you a clone, but you are a clone of a clone. Thus the “III” after your name! Regards, Pat From: EDWARD F WELLER III...
Hi Mike I am responding to a post after a long hiatus! Your post spurred me to respond. 10/1 PIs (Process Improvements) per employee per month is too high for...
Ed, For SCAMPI A, all LAs should be providing the same minimum level for services in ensuring that an official level of CMMI claimed by OU is really there. If...
Orhan There will be significant differences between LAs with 30-40 years experience across all development activities and management and who have had access to...
Orhan You also overlook the other side of the coin with your "assigned by SEI ATL", that there are companies that ATLs prefer not to work with. What would...
Mike Are these 10 unique per person, and across all people, are they unique? What does a Pareto chart look like? Also, are the people gaming the system by...
Ok, new scenario: Processes have been defined and are working quite fine. How do we seek out and foster PI? First and foremost, do no harm, never change a...
Hello, 1)Suppose an Orgn. wants to get assessed at L2, how should VER and VAL be met or looked into? Can this be completely ignored and processes/practices...
Hamsa, 1. If your primary objective is to achieve ML2, then ignore VER and VAL and leave them totally ad hoc as they will not be evaluated as part of the ML2...
Greetings. Can someone provide best practices in Marketing and sales from CMMI or ITIL. Like converting sales calls to business or something like that. Also...
Hi all, We experienced some issues in doing our checklists maintenance along the various releases of our process in our company. Recently arose a proposal ...
Following up on VER: applying its practices well can give you tremendous insight as to where your organization is injecting defects and, consequently improve...
Ed, What's a ATL? rick ________________________________ From: EDWARD F WELLER III <edwardfwelleriii@...> To: cmmi_process_improvement@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
Ed, Expertise and experience is meaningless when there is a conflict of interest, i.e., the same person on the payroll for the rating. This is Orhan's point. ...
ATL - Appraisal Team Leader There are 2 issues Conflict of interest that leads to unethical behavior (COI does not mean there will be unethical behavior) and...
Roberto, PPQA Checklists are generally used as: a. A ready reference when preforming an Audit / Assessment b. Helps to stay focused on the practices...
Hi Beto, In my quality carrier i have learnt that thses checklists are basically guidance which help reviewer to manage/carry out the review activity in a...
Hi Beto, Certainly PPQA can be performed "without checklists" - although they are often a very useful tool. However, before you extinguish them, you need to ...
Hi Beto, The purposes for having PPQA checklists are several-fold: Ensure the minimum is done, that it is done consistently and repeatable, that the audits...
Hi Folks, Please allow me to explain what they don't teach in SEI about Maturity Levels. To understand the spirit of maturity levels, we need to see the ...
Hi Beto, Though there is a considerable effort to be put in for the checklists get updated after every process change, this is very useful one for the audit...
Friends Take a look at this below email. IFPUG released their hand book, "The IFPUG Guide to IT and Software Measurement”. That book contains a chapter by me...
Beto, Without some kind of process infrastructure, like a checklist, how will PPQA perform its role in a consistently high-quality way? As processes change,...
