Dear Group members, Warm thanks for all of your inputs. as i read your replies, i should give a brief back ground of our org. so here it is.. we are a switch...
Hello, for those of you that could be interested in PSU, a minor revision v1.21 come out. Now the Measurement Manual has been translated in Spanish/Castellano...
Andre, In complement to your interpretations, one also can understand some recurrent defect analysis with VER/VAL results. Regards, Charles-Henri Andre...
Folks, I wanted to let this group know that the latest expansion in the CMMI Product Suite is now available on the CMMI site at the SEI. Some of you may have...
Hello, I have closed the poll about: Do you think the spirit of CMMI is missing in the CMMI v1.2? If we consider only the YES and NO answers: %25 YES, %75...
Currently my organization is working with a certified lead appraiser who is not certified to conduct a higher maturity level appraisal. We have a good deal of...
Hi Dawn, First reaction: yes I see a major problem with this. This LA will be so grateful to you for paying his fees that it will be almost impossible for him...
If anyone is still wondering why the SEI is placing so much emphasis on certification for high-maturity lead appraisers, reading through these answers should...
Hi Pat Not sure about the sentence "As a lead appraiser, I would be hard-pressed to allow the appraisal team to "fail" an organization that has religiously...
Dawn, Your post has two potential conflicts of interest embedded within. First, it's not clear what you mean when you say "a good deal of history with this...
Dawn Ethics aside for a second, you are making an assumption that this person can pass the HM oral exam. It is $1500 to apply and $3K/yr when they pass. From...
CMMI states that, for a level 2 appraisal, all process areas must be in place. It also states however that organizations must use professional judgement to...
Peter, However, unless there is hard evidence to the contrary, "I really get the feeling..." is an insufficient reason to justify an organization failing a...
I don't think the model authors took into account the kinds of organizations we see in industry, where they are running literally hundreds of medium-to-small...
A change of pace from the usual. I am pleased to announce that Space Gateway Support achieved ML3 with the completion of their SCAMPI-A (Appraisal #10213)...
All, Adding to Pat's and Step's responses, I look at CMMI (and the PMBOK for that matter) as living one layer below "Portfolio Management". Portfolio...
John, I'll let the lead assessors answer the question on if that will pass a level-2 assessment. But I can tell you that every level-2 process area can be...
Hi Rob, The issue wahtever ypu have posted is not clear to me . kindly explaine me when a org is trying to deploy L2 then what is the point to look into GP...
As I understood Jeff's original comment (and he will correct me if I am wrong), he recommended that if an organization is going to ml3 in a stepwise fashion...
Rob, Your wisdom as an implementer is apparent in your post - and makes a lot of sense. Just to tweak your quote of my earlier comment, I meant to say that...
Dawn, I came across this posting about the CMMI v 1.2 - about Internal Lead Appraiser and thought that it maybe useful for your consideration Cheers, Mathi...
Hi All, I recently debated this with one of my CMMI colleges working for another organization, and had the same debate a few years back with someone else. His...
I would like to add another potential benefit that could result from Rob's approach. I find that organizations that document their L2 processes at the project...
Dawn, Another option to help address the potential conflict of interest would be to include multiple external members on the appraisal team who are trained in...
Thank you for all of your responses to this post. Based on my earlier post regarding ML4 and % expectations of this LA and now this we have opted to find a...
Peter, Pat, Still, we are appraising both capability and maturity. From Peter, I have "stolen" some excellent descriptions of these topics, that I use to cite...
Is there a confusion in this discussion between something causing a strongly worded weakness in a largely implemented practice, and finding a practice to be...
