Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement (SCAMPI)

2.3.3 Document Practice Implementation Gaps
Activity
Description
Required
Practices
Parameters
and Limits
The primary intent of this activity is to derive, from the objective evidence
gathered, summary prose statements that describe the gap between what the
objective evidence shows and what the team was looking for to support a
claim that the model practice was implemented. The statements explain why
the practice is not considered to be Fully Implemented. Statements of practice
implementation gaps will be validated with the organizational unit at a later
time.
Strengths are not recorded pro forma when practices are found to be Fully
Implemented. Where practices represent exemplary implementations of the
model practices, the appraisal team will highlight these as part of the appraisal
output. However, the primary focus of this benchmarking method is to help
the organization verify the implementation of the model and identify areas
where work is needed.
Describe in writing gaps in the organizational unit’s implemented processes
relative to reference model practices.
For any practice that is characterized as something other than Fully
Implemented, there must be a prose statement explaining the gap between
what the organization does and what the model expects.
Regardless of the medium used, statements describing practice
implementation gaps should be annotated with the following identifying
information:
• the model component to which the statement relates (i.e., PA, goal, and
practice)
• the data collection session(s) in which the information was uncovered
• the process instantiation(s) to which the statement applies
Prose statements of practice implementation gaps presented to the
organizational unit in the form of preliminary findings for validation must be
free of references to specific individuals or projects.
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