HI Joachim, I agree. Good points! Henry Henry Schneider President/Senior Principal Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/img/signature/bg_bluegel_385x42.jpg ...
Hello all, Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Do we need to maintain something like process traceability among various processes in an organization? What I mean by...
dea all, i am enclosing a escalation matrix foemat developed by me. this is a utilization of RACI MATRIX for escalation mechanism  looking for ward for...
Hi Heather, can you please share your presentation with me as we are a system context (including Hardware, Software, Mechanical). we find difficulties in...
Dear All, I have a confusions in regards to OT SP 2.3 Assess training effectiveness. For assessing the training effectiveness we ask the trainee to rate him on...
Dear All, I have been told that suitable parametric estimation technique (e.g. FP, UCP, COCOMO, etc.) is necessary for estimating project size, efforts and ...
Hi Ravi, OPD SP 1.1 expects that you establish and maintain your organization standard process. Sub-practice 3 indicates that you should consider specifying...
Hi Vibhanshu, Quick reaction. I think that doing just this is insufficient. Asking the trainee usually just measures if he liked the trainer, the food and the...
Ikram, You were told wrong. There is nothing in the model that dictates the use of "suitable parametric estimation techniques" over techniques such as...
Vibhanshu, Andre was close, merely misspelling "Kirkpatrick" as "Fitzpatrick" (at least he got the "patrick" part right - and what could be more important than...
Hi Vibhanshu, You can download the presentation from <http://www.oppenpartners.com> www.oppenpartners.com. The title is "CMMI, It's Not Just For Software ...
Hi George, depending on the mission of the test, the productivity of the test team can be (or should be) measurement differently. For some test projects, the...
Hi Vibhanshu (and Hi, Andre - great to meet you in person last week!) Philosophically I very much agree with Andre. Instructor and course ratings generally do...
Hi Vibhanshu, While it is important to assess the effectiveness of training, OT SP 2.3 expects that you assess the effectiveness of the training program. A...
Hi Ikram, In the CMMI, goals are requirements. Practices (the specific and generic) are expectations. Everything else is informative material which includes...
Hi, In the company where I work we are facing some problems and we are planning to review our EPG organizational structure. So we want to analyze all possible...
Dear All, This is my first posting to this group. I have a query on VALIDATION as used in CMMI. The difference between VERIFICATION & VALIDATION (Please...
Hi Pankajakshan, I am adding further to this, Verification: Although "verification" and "validation" at first seem quite similar in CMMI models, on closer...
Pankajakshan, I believe that you have a pretty good handle on the CMMI's view of Validation. I might suggest that you expand your view just a touch - it may...
Hi Pankajakshan, I'd say you have it nailed. Off-line customer reviews would also provide validation. Validation should occur throughout the life cycle ...
Panka, You are mostly correct. Validation takes its roots from the Juran quality model "Goodness-of-fit"; or as you defined it "building the right product"....
Hi, I remember, in a book I have seen a code of ethics for how not to use metrics, such as "do not use numbers against people"... Do you have such a code of...
Orhan, I believe the list to which you refer is in one of the books by Robert Grady: - Sofware Metrics: Establishing a Company-Wide Program - Practical...
For me: Involvement of customer is one thing. The other important thing is the where it takes place. If it does not take place in the customer environment i.e....
Pankaj, Orhan is right about iterative development supporting early validation, but I think it also could be just as plausible to perform early validation of...
Orhan, So how do companies working on the Space Shuttle validate their product components? Or people working on nuclear weapons? How do offshore developers...
Hello Everyone, Our company is currently moving toward CMMI Level 3 and we are currently in the process of the defining the templates and processes to be...
I think we are deviating from basics and getting into - who, what, when and where - performs Validation or Verification... We need to look at how verification...