Effective 11/17/08

The SEI audits a sample of CMMI High Maturity appraisals. The following are the criteria being used for these audits. These criteria in no way limit the application of the model or its intent or judgments made during an appraisal, nor do they relieve the organization from fully implementing the model.

Organizational Process Performance

• (SP 1.1) Show the relationship between the business objectives and the processes selected for process performance analysis.
• (SP 1.2) Show the analysis and rationale for deciding what data to include in the process performance analysis.
• (SP 1.3) Show the relationship between business objectives and Quality and Process Performance Objectives (QPPOs).
• (SP 1.4) Describe Process Performance Baselines (PPBs) in terms of central tendencies and variation for the processes selected for analysis.
• (SP 1.5) Describe at least one Process Performance Model (PPM) in terms of the processes included, the controllable inputs and the predicted outputs. The model must be statistical or probabilistic in nature rather than deterministic, i.e., the model considers uncertainty and predicts that uncertainty or range of values in the outcome.

Quantitative Project Management

• (SP 1.2) Describe how the projects created their defined process by using PPBs and/or PPMs to predict the ability of the processes selected to meet the project’s QPPOs.
• (SP 1.3) Describe the project’s rationale for selecting subprocesses to be statistically managed.
• (SP 1.4) Show how at least one project used process measures as inputs to a PPM used to actively manage the project.
• (SP 2.2) Show that at least one project applied statistical methods to identify and remove special causes of variation from selected subprocesses.
• (SP 2.3) Show how projects monitor the capability of selected subprocesses.

Causal Analysis and Resolution

• (SP 1.2) Demonstrate that at least one of the defects or problems selected for analysis was related to a quantitatively managed process, where “quantitatively managed” is as defined in the glossary.

Organizational Innovation & Deployment

• (SP 2.3) Demonstrate that the effects of at least one improvement were measured for statistical significance.

As defined in the SCAMPI v1.2 Method Definition Document Section 1.1.3, these criteria refer to the instantiations in the representative sample that are identified as either focus projects, non-focus projects, or other organizational level instantiations with a scope that includes the high maturity process areas.