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Towards a Systematic Metric Based Approach to Evaluate SCAMPI Appraisals

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Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2009)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 32))

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Abstract

CMMI SCAMPI based appraisals are used worldwide to assess the process quality of organizations. In this paper we introduce a metric-based approach to assess and improve CMMI SCAMPI appraisals. To have a sound basis we at first present an appraisal meta model which defines all types of appraisal elements and their relationships. This meta model can be instantiated to get a concrete SCAMPI appraisal process, offering a precise roadmap for conducting appraisals. Based on the meta model two appraisal quality metrics are defined to systematically assess appraisal activities as well as phases and to support the improvement of appraisals. We describe the definition of these metrics in detail and give some metric interpretation guidelines.

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  1. KUGLER MAAG CIE GmbH, Leibnizstr. 11, 70806, Kornwestheim, Germany

    Simona Pricope

  2. Research Group Software Construction, RWTH Aachen University, Ahornstr. 55, 52074, Aachen, Germany

    Horst Lichter

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  1. Fraunhofer IIESE, Fraunhoferplatz 1, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Frank Bomarius

  2. Department of Information Processing Science, University of Oulu, P.O.Box 3000, 90014, Finland

    Markku Oivo

  3. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Tietotie 3, 02150, Espoo, Finland

    Päivi Jaring

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, P.O.Box 68, 00014, Helsinki, Finland

    Pekka Abrahamsson

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Pricope, S., Lichter, H. (2009). Towards a Systematic Metric Based Approach to Evaluate SCAMPI Appraisals. In: Bomarius, F., Oivo, M., Jaring, P., Abrahamsson, P. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2009. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 32. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02152-7_20

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