Hi Monica, Preparing a Risk Management Plan consists of following activities: Assumptions: 1. You have a database/repository of risks mainatained & updated...
Monica / Arvind and others, From what I understand as Risk as in CMMI, I feel we need to come out with at minimum the following: 1.. Existence of Risk Database...
Hi, I want to document my organizations software process, can any give me the template and guidelines for documenting software processes OR sample process...
hi sameer, There is no standard template to write a software process.Just ensure that the following points are covered when the process is wrritten . Objective...
Hello, Probably, No standard templae can be developed for defining the process document. I would suggest you to go through the following SEI documents. These...
Sameer, There is no single standard template for defining processes. There are several recommended approaches such as the ones Ravindra recommends. I would...
Hi All, Can anybody throw some light over TS PA?? or has anybody already defined this process for his/her orgn than may please share his/her experiences. what...
Sameer, I think Bindu has already given you some excellent advice, but you might also want to strongly consider a couple of other things as well. First, it may...
Hi, I have been involved in a research with in very small software development companies; employing less then 10 employees. During research, I have found it...
hello saquib, with the CMMI there are some sections that allow for the adaption of the standard when considering smaller organizations. this makes the CMMI...
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Saquib, I appreciate Gerold's reply, but feel it maintains the confusion between "seeking benchmarks" and measuring process improvement. Appraisals done using...
Having worked in both large government and smaller commercial organizations using process improvement frameworks, there are advantages inherently available to...
... Centre for Software Engineering (CSE) : www.cse.dcu.ie/ Check out the SPIRE handbook. More links on my site: www.sysmod.com/psp.htm Good luck Patrick...
Saquib: I'm just now processing your message but wanted to let you know that we (LOGOS International) have been successfully using the SW-CMM (tailored by us)...
Dear all, We are going for CMMi Level 5, as per our recent meeting with our CMMi consultant, it was said that the System and UAT should be the part of...
Hi, May I know who is your consultant, If you read carefully the defination of Verification and Validation the major difference is of user scenario, in case of...
I believe any consultant who tells you that you must structure your processes according to the CMMI model, or any other, should be replaced. Mapping is plenty...
I want to reinforce Sarah's point -- she is exactly right that we at the SEI will never urge reworking existing processes simply to match the model. It may be...
Dear Prashant, CMMI does not suggest how to club the processes. The need is to map the CMMI process areas to your organization processes. Now with respect to...
Thank you all. The points made are really clear and distinctive. Now it seems that CMMi not a "rigit" framework as expected. I will again confirm with our...
Dear All, We a MNC who are working towards CMMi assesment by Dec 2003.We are currently in the process definition phase and it would be very helpful if anybody...
David F Rico provides good inputs on the Integrated CMM. KPMG consultants can provide you with the required inputs. Re/- Mithuna ... currently in the process...
Two words that probably shouldn't go together are "test" and "validation" and in a recent comment on this list: test the system to ensure that "the product...
Hello Shakeel, Please go through the "Technical Report CMU/SEI-93-TR-16 Establishing a Software Measurement Process". I feel it will suffice your need. With...
Hello Shakeel, I would highly recommend to use Technical Report CMU/SEI-92-TR-25 "Software Measures and the Capability Maturity Model" as a guide. It should be...
Richard, ITIL is a service-oriented framework rather than a product-oriented or process-oriented framework. As you may have seen, it's the basis of two...
CMU developed another model called eSCM for addressing such 'service oriented' organizations. The strength of the model comes from the fact that it addresses ...
Sree, thanks for the pointer. From the link, eSCM seems to relate to sourced services and as you say may have strengths in pre-contract and post-contract...