Hi All 1.If there is any compnay which is only doing Requirements Prototyping or Requirements Visualization projects, can they go for CMMI Level2. Becuase that...
hi,all: We are in a system center of a enterprise. Many task are very small maintenance task which can be finished by one person in 4 hours. How can we...
Neil, Here is my $0.02 (US) worth. If a company is using Open Source software, it should be treated like COTS (Commercial Off-the-Shelf) software. The...
Sovran, Marathon runners are encouraged to drink water or sport drink at least 10 times throughout the race - sprinters that run the 100 yard dash may not want...
Neil, Regarding your second scenario - SAM's applicability when a specific supplier is mandated by the customer and the customer owns the contract - it seems...
Process Improvement Practitioners, I am glad to announce that the EDS' Applications Development and Maintenance centre located Rio de Janeiro was appraised as...
EDS Rio de Janeiro Application Development and Maintenance unit achieves CMMI Level 5Congratulations on a job well done. Nat Guadagnino San Antonio, TX ... ...
Hi Seshu, The OPP PA is build over the OPF PA. OPF sets the process objectives for the organization. The OPP is used to arrive at a model to measure the...
Pat, "The expectation should be to do things that add value, not just do things because a model tells you to - especially if the model is targeted at projects...
The below email left my PC immaturely: pushed the send button too early, apologies. Both paragraphs in my email below are from Pat. I wanted to present Pat's...
Marcio Your success is an invaluable example for every one of us. Parabéns!!! Ricardo Guerreiro SEPG - Unisys ________________________________ From: Silveira,...
Hi Sethu Seshu might have also wanted some details on the Models required at L4 This can well understood with an example Like the Defect Distribution across...
Hi, This is yet another situation where its more important to opt for a Solution based approach than a Problem based Approach The solution is based on the...
Hi Pat, Thank you for your email. Good summary example. I don't disagree with you. I was after all quoting other opinions given to me. So I think it is fare...
Dear Mathi, another way may be, we can take sample from the issues and can do the verification and peer reviews Mathi Ezhil Arasu <arasu@...> wrote: ...
Hi Mathi, I have a question that, how can you implement self reviews, is it gives really value addtion to the process or for the sake. Mathi Ezhil Arasu...
Dear All, 1. A process needs to be defined in the ETVX format. The process consists of many sub processes (For EX: Under Implementaion Process, we have...
I work at a concultancy company helping customers with CMMI (among other things). We now have a customer, who has asked an interesting question. This is an...
Dear Friends, I would like to get details of post project implementation review Questionnaire template to collect the feedback from the customer and project...
Neil, I think we share the same philosophy - that the model is a set of good practices that can help an organization improve the work that they perform their...
How can you ensure the integrity of the executable if you don't control the source from which it is generated? How can you be sure it was made from the right...
I frequently advise organizations in this circumstance (especially when it's a critical piece, there's RSKM for you) to walk through those steps the customer...
To add my 2 cents  I really liked the response where open-source software was seen as COTS software. This does fit well with Pat¹s reaction. Andre. ... -- ...
Hi Robert, I concur with your first reaction: of course you can't do that. It does not matter at all that coding is a level 3 issue. These guys are expected to...
Hi Robert I think if their major work product output is code/binary, then that should be CM'd. Otherwise I think they are missing the point of CM. This would...
A bit late, but I still want to react on this thread. I hesitated a bit because this is the first time I disagree with Pat, so I wanted to think about the...
Hi, Self review is one of the best practices which uncovers most of the obvious mistakes. This in turn saves lot of precious time invested by a peer reviewer. ...
