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...
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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,...
Orhan, Your approach is EASILY achieved if you migrate from the staged representation as it exists today to the continuous representation as it exists today....
Beto, In my experience, two huge benefits of using a checklist in this situation are: 1. Allows organizations to establish an establish an objective criteria...
Neil, Mathi, Aiswarya, Heather, David and Pat I'd like to thank you all for the valuable insights. They would endorse my convictions and further give me more...
Orhan The continuous representation, as currently constructed, allows you to do what you propose in the 6th paragraph. For example, in 1990, well before the...
Hi, As per QPM SP 1.4 Select Measures and Analytic Techniques, Subpractices #6 (Identify the statistical and other quantitative techniques to be used in...
The SEI prepares to transition CMMI activities (including the CMMI product suite) to a new, independent business unit operated by Carnegie Mellon University. ...
Prashant There is possibly a bigger issue here. You are making a critical assumption - that the test cases counted are in the same subgroup. E.g., would you...
Hi , You need to use P chart for proportion as your sample size is not constant( Number of test cases executed/ per day). Try and search for P and Np cahrts on...
Pat, I am not interested in how EASY or DIFFICULT it is, I am interested in what is RIGHT! :) (Also you will see it is not EASY to convince a sponsor...
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Hi All, Call me old fashioned, but I think all of this is covered in the Continuous Representation and the Generic Practices. * CL0 - Smart people doing some...