by High Maturity
Organizations
18th International Forum on COCOMO and
Software Cost Modeling
21-24 October 2003
Maturity Level 4
Understanding and managing special causes of variation
Organization Project
Establishes organizational goals Establishes project goals
Establishes standard process Tailors standard organizational
Characterizes process performance process to create project’s defined
and quality of the standard process process
Selects critical subprocesses to
quantitatively manage
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Maturity Level 5
Preventing defects and innovation (addressing common causes of variation)
Organization Project
Identifies incremental and Identifies causes of defects and
innovative improvements other problems
Pilots improvements Takes actions to prevent them from
Deploys and measures occurring in the future
(quantitatively) the results
RUN CHART
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Summary