Process Improvement (CMMI) Flashcards
The CMMI is a process and behavioral model that helps organizations streamline process improvement and encourage productive, efficient behaviors that decrease risks in software, product, and service development.
What does CMMI stand for?
Capability Maturity Model Integration
A process and behavioral model that helps organizations streamline process improvement and encourage productive, efficient behaviors that decrease risks in software, product, and service development.
CMMI
CMMI level 1. Process is unpredictable, poorly controlled, and reactive.
Initial
CMMI level 2. Process is characterized for projects and is often reactive.
Managed
CMMI level 3. Process is characterized for the organization and is proactive.
Defined
CMMI level 4. Process is measured and controled.
Quantitatively Managed
CMMI level 5. Focus is on quantitative continuous process improvement.
Optimizing
The focused PA assessment uses the maturity questionnaires. What does PA stand for?
Process Area
Those PA strengths the project or organization is demonstrating in comparison to the activities described in the specific PAs of the CMMI.
Process capability
The weakness or process problems that are having a negative effect on the organization’s or project’s process capabilities with regard to that PA.
Findings
The perceived, derived, or real risks that are associated with having those weaknesses in that PA.
Consequences
A description of how the process problems might be solved to result in process and product quality improvement.
Recommendations
The third part of the focused PA assessment is the GAP. What does GAP stand for?
Guidance for Action Planning
The third part of the focused PA assessment is the ___.
GAP
