Gerold, The mapping point is a good one, and one that's often overlooked. How many organizations have you heard say they are "implementing CMMI (or ISO)"? The...
Dear Minh, ISO is an easier standard to adapt to for organizations that do not have a quality infrastructure in place. Introduction and implementation of ISO...
Dear Friends Please keep in mind that processes are written for your activities in the 'Line Of Business'. Processes are to meet the business goals and the...
Hello Minh, If you are required to implement one of them, pick CMMI to save time and money, of course. In addition, in the USA now, companies are required to ...
I am putting some thoughts across - agreeing to what many - very knowledgeable people have already said. I am focussing on 'how' ISO helps in starting with ...
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Gerold Keefer
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Apr 2, 2006 10:27 pm
1. for a thorough discussion of ISO vs. CMMI please consider buying a copy of the excellent book by mutafelja and stromberg. 2. in preparing my paper "the CMMI...
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Gerold Keefer
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Apr 2, 2006 10:27 pm
eduardo, i have a great tool proposal, although it is not always in the public domain. the tool's name is "observation plus thought". if you apply "observation...
Hi all, Thanks for all the feedback (more is still welcome). Given our context we were wondering when to use IPPD and when it was less suitable. The examples...
Hi Can any one please send / reffer some basic checklists to be used in the configuration Audits,the PCAs and FCAs. I hope that i will get more kilobytes in...
Dear Minh i very much agreed with Farah malik to start ISO and then move forward to CMM. Since my organization is also doing the same. And we find this ...
Dear Minh, The main reason for going in for an ISO cerification first would be , It will help u develop your processes and the most important part of an ISO is...
Hi Niha, You can refer to the questions that i have listed below for performing Configuration Audits. This may come in use to you , Are CM activities planned...
Dear All, First of all I really appreciate all of you in this previous discussion and would like to add my words. This all depends on the organization needs...
I am putting some thoughts across - agreeing to what many - very knowledgeable people have already said. I am focussing on 'how' ISO helps in starting with...
The thought of doing both in parallel (or at least in support of one another) also has some intuitive appeal. For example, the approach suggested by Thomas...
Irfan, The CMMI is primarily a project-oriented engineering model and you should be careful trying to warp it into a "one-size-fits-all" model. There are...
this list is a good QA audit of CM, but a CM audit is to assure that the actual configuration items and versions that are in the baseline are the correct ones....
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Viet Tran Bang
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Apr 5, 2006 2:59 am
Hi Minh, I back to this topic because I would like share with you my real experience. For me, the decision of ISO first or CMMI first is not only the technical...
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gkeefer@...
Apr 5, 2006 3:04 am
dear muhammad nadeem, are you trying to indicate a level 2 maturity by sending this message out twice? :-) best regards, gerold I am putting some thoughts...
Hi, Bruce has provided some inputs. It would help many other persons if some more persons share their thoughts/experiences. I am sure there are several CMMI...
I think you'll find this isn't necessarily a "competition" with ITIL, but a companion. I recently attended the ITIL Service Management Conference and there...
What about it? It is good if defects are sparse :-) dense defects will be a problem. So you can use "defect sparsity = 1 / defect density" then the higher ...
