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- From: sr@seas.gwu.edu (Stan Rifkin)
- Subject: Re: Is SEI's CMM being used in Anger or just Marketing?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.124417.29321@seas.gwu.edu>
- Keywords: SEI CMM maturity level 2 independent software quality assurance
- Sender: news@seas.gwu.edu
- Organization: George Washington University
- References: <1992Dec4.035021@eklektix.com> <1992Dec4.082941.1@mdcbbs.com> <1992Dec7.094427@eklektix.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 12:44:17 GMT
- Lines: 47
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- In article <1992Dec7.094427@eklektix.com> rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
- >royce@mdcbbs.com (Royce D. Myers EDS/Unigraphics) writes:
- >>rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
- >>> If, as has been repeated many times, moving up the CMM scale primarily aids
- >>> predictability, repeatability, etc. of the process, but does not address
- >>> the quality of the final result, then what programs *do* emphasize the
- >>> expedient production of a quality result?
- [...]
- >A repeatable process is (arguably!) necessary to a quality result. It is
- >*NOT* sufficient. What I'm trying to ask is whether there's some other set
- >of measures imposed to try to check the quality. Although I might argue,
- >in a separate thread, against the CMM, what I'm trying to ask here is what
- >additional approaches apply, to examine quality _per_se_ and directly,
- >rather than through an indirect relationship.
- >
- >Rearranging words: You're telling me that
- > If you don't have predictable process, you won't have quality result.
- >I'm saying "OK, even if I accept that (which I don't in its complete gener-
- >ality, but set that aside)..."
- > If you do have predictable process, it doesn't guarantee quality result.
- >--
- >Dick Dunn rcd@raven.eklektix.com -or- raven!rcd Boulder, Colorado
-
- Where is quality in the SEI CMM? Everywhere, and specifically it is a
- key process area at maturity level 2: independent software quality
- assurance (ISQA). Tim Remple (in article 10342) effectively presents
- the many faces and definitions of quality. Whatever quality is in a
- particular organization and for a particular product, the function of
- assuring that the product meets that definition falls to ISQA. Modern
- authors (such as Deutsch and Willis in Software Quality Engineering,
- Prentice-Hall, 1988) allocate to the ISQA function the duties of
- helping the development organization define quality and helping to
- achieve it. According to version 1.0 of the CMM, the following are the
- goals of ISQA:
-
- - Compliance of the software product and software process with
- applicable standards, procedures, and product requirements is
- independently confirmed.
-
- - When there are compliance problems, management is aware of them.
-
- - Senior management addresses noncompliance issues.
-
- In addition, for every key process area at every maturity level, there
- is a set of activities in the CMM that verifies implementation of the
- key process area. This is also an ISQA function; it assures the
- existence of processes.
-