Description

Implement and mature a standard, repeatable process to better manage development activities and forecast what needs to be done. Increase the ability to understand organizational performance in order to tailor, adopt and enact appropriate processes.

Many studies have shown that organizations with mature processes achieve high predictability.

For example, one organization reported over 30% reduction of cost and budget overruns after obtaining SEI Maturity Improvement Level 4.

See the following reference:
Haley, T., B. Ireland, E. Wojtaszek, D. Nash and R. Dion, "Raytheon Electronic Systems Experience inSoftware Process Improvement", SEI Technical Report CMU/SEI-95-TR017, November, 1995.

Symptoms

Symptoms that indicate the need to improve process governance and compliance include the following:

• No process standard across organization
• Inconsistent adoption or no adoption
• No criteria to understand how to tailor the process
• No clear roles and job descriptions
• Inability to harvest past experiences to improve the process
  

Solutions

The following solutions help to improve process governance and compliance:

• Solution: Improve Lifecycle Collaboration
• Solution: Review Readiness at Milestones
• Solution: Generate Cross Domain Specifications