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Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement (SCAMPI)

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1.5.3 Replan Data Collection<br />

Activity<br />

Description<br />

Required<br />

Practices<br />

Parameters<br />

and Limits<br />

The data collection plan is updated as required during the conduct of the<br />

readiness review or during the appraisal itself as objective evidence is found,<br />

or as new sources of in<strong>for</strong>mation are uncovered. The activity described in this<br />

section refers to a more substantial change in the plan, which is expected to be<br />

a rare occurrence in practice. If during the conduct of an appraisal, the team<br />

discovers that their assumptions about the availability of objective evidence<br />

are substantially incorrect, the appraisal team leader may renegotiate the<br />

appraisal plan with the sponsor.<br />

• Review the current inventory of objective evidence and determine model<br />

practices <strong>for</strong> which the objective evidence is inadequate relative to the<br />

appraisal plan.<br />

• Revise the data collection plan as necessary based on the appraisal status<br />

and availability of objective evidence.<br />

• Renegotiate the appraisal plan with the sponsor if the appraisal cannot<br />

proceed as planned.<br />

This activity is not a substitute <strong>for</strong> tactical decisions about where and how to<br />

find objective evidence. The intent of this activity is to respond to a major gap<br />

between expected data and actual data.<br />

Major gaps between expected and actual data may occur, <strong>for</strong> example, as a<br />

result of the following:<br />

• inaccurate assumptions about the availability of objective evidence<br />

• content of artifacts or in<strong>for</strong>mation from interviews not providing<br />

significant amounts of the in<strong>for</strong>mation required and other sources not<br />

being planned<br />

• unexpected absence of multiple key interviewees<br />

• unanticipated delays in the implementation of new processes<br />

• major customer-driven emergencies <strong>for</strong> one or more of the sampled<br />

projects<br />

Continued on next page<br />

Page II-68<br />

CMU/SEI-2001-HB-001

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