9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
McDonnell Douglas Auditorium
University of California, Irvine
There is a $15.00 charge for non-sponsors.
Checks should be made payable to UC Regents.
No reservations required.
Coordinator: Debra A. Brodbeck, UC Irvine / IRUS, brodbeck@ics.uci.edu
A Capability Maturity Model (CMM) is a reference model of best practices for an engineering discipline. A project or organization can compare their practices against a CMM to measure how mature their processes are, to benchmark against competitors, and to identify improvement opportunities. The Software CMM (SW-CMM), and its five level scale, has become a de facto standard for assessing and improving software processes throughout the world.
The success of the SW-CMM was soon copied by other disciplines, and has led to a world of CMMs. There are currently over 30 different CMMs in use throughout industry, covering a variety of disciplines, and reflecting an assortment of structures and formats. This diversification is causing increasing difficulty for developers and customers in selecting and applying the right model(s).
This talk presents an overview of the major CMMs in use today, and the status of the DoD CMM integration effort. It will include comparisons of the:
Relationships to non-CMM standards, such as ISO 9000/9001, DoD-STD-2167A, MIL-STD-498, ISO 12207, and IEEE P1220, will also be highlighted.
Biography: Dr. Rick Hefner is an SEI-authorized CBA-IPI Lead Assessor, with over 20 years of experience in software development and process improvement. He is a member of the DoD joint CMM Integration team and Co-Chair of the Assessment Team, and he teaches locally on the SW-CMM and related subjects. Dr. Hefner serves as the Manager of Process Technology for TRW, where his focus is on practical, low-cost methods for process assessment, process improvement, and training.
Directions to meeting are available.
Next Meeting:
Date: Friday, May 29, 1998
Topic: A Systematic Approach to Continuous Process Improvement: An Introduction to the Theory of Constraints Thinking Process
Speaker: David T. Novick, The Boeing Company
Coordinator: George Huling, Disciplined Software Consulting
The Irvine Research Unit in Software wishes to thank its corporate sponsors:
Sustaining:
The Boeing Company * Boeing North American, Inc. * Northrop Grumman Corporation
Raytheon Company * Sun Microsystems Laboratories * TRW
Supporting:
Beckman Instruments * Continuus Software Corporation * FileNet Corporation * Lockheed Martin
Logicon Ultrasystems Space & Engineering Operations * Printronix, Inc.
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