Recent Posts Tagged With 'lead appraiser'

• Auditor Directing a PPM

  Posted on Monday August 10th, 2009 at 16:19 in Car, oid, lead appraiser, qppos, ppms, ppbs, causal analysis and resolution, cmmi lead appraiser, organizational innovation and deployment

  We are trying for CMMI ML 5 Ver 1.2, and our auditor has asked us to come up with a PPM for predicting the outcome of CAR and OID. Can you help me on how to go about it?When you say auditor, I assume that you mean your Lead Appraiser (LA) is asking ...

• Can the Same Firm Provide CMMI Consulting & SCAMPI A Services?

  Posted on Wednesday May 20th, 2009 at 16:31 in conflict of interest, lead appraiser, code of professional conduct, scampi a

  I have been hearing that the SEI has stringent rules stating that the consulting firm cannot perform a SCAMPI A appraisal as it results in conflict of interest and the appraisal may lose it's objectivity. Couold you please throw light on this issue a...

• What Class of SCAMPI Appraisal is Appropriate?

  Posted on Friday March 27th, 2009 at 07:06 in team leader, lead appraiser, scampi b, scampi a, scampi c

  My organization has just started our process improvement journey. For our first appraisal, which SCAMPI class (A, B, or C) should we use?I would strongly suggest that your organization hire either a SCAMPI Lead Appraiser or a SCAMPI B/C Team Leader ...

• CMMi 1.2 Level 3 Query

  Posted on Tuesday September 30th, 2008 at 16:24 in appraisal, cmmi, lead appraiser

  We have planned to use CMMI 1.2 model for our Organization for process improvement and we are targetting to reach maturity Level 3. The constraint here is we have a very small team in development. E.g. there are only 3 members for database managem...

• Appraising Your Own Organization

  Posted on Thursday June 19th, 2008 at 13:39 in conflict of interest, scampi, lead appraiser

  In writing yesterday's blog entry I had included a statement that a SCAMPI A Lead Appraiser was not allowed to audit his or her organization, which I removed before posting. The SEI requires that the appraisal be done by an external third party. Howe...

• Lead Appraiser Authorization Steps

  Posted on Wednesday June 18th, 2008 at 10:06 in scampi, lead appraiser, cmmil lead appraiser

  What are the requirements for the SEI to "approve" a lead appraiser? The SEI is the only body allowed to authorize a SCAMPI Lead Appraiser (LA).The process for becoming a SCAMPI LA is:You must take the SEI’s Intro to CMMI 3-day class, either the cu...

• CMMI Updates from the SEI

  Posted on Monday May 12th, 2008 at 11:16 in sei, cmmi, mike phillips, v1.3, cmmi-acq, cmmi-dev, lead appraiser, cmmi-svc

  Last week I participated in the workshop at the Software Engineering Institute in Pittsburgh to develop questions for the Lead Appraiser certification exam that is planned to be administered for the first time in October 2008. To kick off the worksh...

• Changes to Intro to CMMI Training and Appraisals for CMMI-ACQ

  Posted on Tuesday April 1st, 2008 at 14:30 in sei, scampi, ferpa, cmmi-acq, cmmi-dev, cmmi instructor, introduction to cmmi, process areas, lead appraiser

  When taking the CMMI-ACQ upgrade training class from the SEI on March 21, there were a number of important changes that will impact CMMI Instructors, Lead Appraisers, and organizations that I think should be made available. No doubt over the next fe...