CMMI Alphabet Zoo
Who's Your PAL?
The Name Game
High Maturity
Random Stuff
100
CMMI
What is Capability Maturity Model Integration?
100
These printed or inventoried items that live outside of FSRM’s Program Management Environment (PME) are found here.
What is the Physical Library?
100
What our SCAMPI appraiser will mean when referring to "the ORG".
What is the Systems Delivery Group (SDG)?
100
The purpose of this process is to analyze defects to determine their cause.
What is Causal Analysis Assessment? Causal Analysis helps identify what, how and why something happened, to prevent recurrence or increase the chance of future repeatability.
100
When conducting Artifact or Code reviews, this document specifies the required reviewers for both.
What is the Configuration Item / Data Item (CI/DI) List?
200
DAR
What is Decision Analysis and Resolution?
200
This area contains all CIs/DIs and is managed by the Configuration Manager to ensure document integrity. This area also includes any items tracked outside of PME (Physical Library).
What is the Configuration Management Library (CML)?
200
The CMMI defines this role as "A group or individual who is affected by or is accountable for the outcome of a process and can be internal or external to the project." Hint: This can be any person that deals with the project or is affected in some way by it, ie ISC's, Team members, MCICOM, etc.
What is a Stakeholder?
200
QPPOs are maintained here.
What is the QPPO Traceability Matrix?
200
FSRM defines measurement constructs to support project specific objectives intended to fulfill client requirements or to provide information appropriate for the management of the project. *Hint - Project specific measurements are defined in this FSRM document.
What is the Construct Definition Document (CDD)?
300
EPG
What is the Engineering Process Group? The EPG works with Process Owners when revising the OSP.
300
This includes the projects configuration management library, physical library, as well as a Working Area defined as a team member’s computer or share drive.
What is the Process Assets Library (PAL)?
300
CMMI defines this role as "The person who provides the policy and overall direction to the program."
Who is the Program Manager?
300
This document is tailored from the Organizational Standard Process (OSP) and shapes FSRM's Quality Assurance Plan.
What is the Project Defined Process (PDP)?
300
These two documents contain the projects staffing requirements (role/responsibility).
What are the Project Management Plan (PMP) and the Training Plan?
400
Earlier known as "CAR" this process is now referred to as?
What is Causal Analysis and Assessment?
400
These are tracked in PME and all team members are responsible for identifying "these" that have the potential to negatively impact the project. Hint: Categorized as Personnel, Financial, Technical, or General.
What are Risks?
400
The CMMI defines this role as "The person responsible for creating and maintaining a process in accordance with Organizational policies."
What is a Process Owner?
400
FSRM's PMP states that "this" takes place throughout the project lifecycle. "This" includes a complex analysis developing a detailed solution or set of solutions, based upon the evaluation of possible alternatives that address a complex need or problem within the project.
What is Decision Analysis and Resolution (DAR)?
400
This is the controlling and overarching document for managing the FSRM's Business Systems Operation, Maintenance and Services Support. It defines the technical and managerial processes necessary to satisfy the project requirements, describes the methodology and procedures for developing systems throughout the lifecycle, discusses the assumptions and constraints that affect the development effort, and defines each phase of the system development lifecycle (SDLC). Bonus: Who is responsible for maintaining this document?
What is the Project Management Plan (PMP)?
500
SCAMPI
What is the Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement?
500
This is a collection of firm-wide systems and software engineering processes, procedures, and templates based on industry best practices, lessons learned, and actual Booz Allen project implementations.
What is the OSP or Organizational Standard Process?
500
What our SCAMPI appraiser will mean when referring to "the project" or "the system".
What is FSRM? Do NOT reference USMCmax or FI individually. There is only one Project Defined Process (PDP) for FSRM.
500
This supports the approved corporate Quality Policy and is the policy that applies to all Systems Delivery Projects, governing any aspect of the design, development, testing, deployment, delivery, and/or maintenance of a system or software.
What is Appendix G of the Corporate Quality Management Plan (QMP)?
500
This plan defines the process for managing future adverse events/circumstances that may arise and which could potentially have a negative impact on FSRM.
What is the Risk Management Plan (RMP)?
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