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Overview
QAI India's
Profound SET (i-2 SW) contains software process documentation
for a typical software development and maintenance organization.
The process documentation contained is aligned with the requirements
of Software Engineering Institute's CMMI® for Software
Engineering (CMMI®-SW, V1.1 ) Staged Representation, version
1.1 Maturity Level 2. It contains a complete set of policies,
procedures, templates, forms, checklists and guidelines for
a typical software development and maintenance organization.
Users of Profound SET (i-2 SW) can modify Profound SET (i-2
SW) documents and tailor them to suit to their own organization
and operations.
Components
of Profound SET (i-2 SW)
The broad categories of components of Profound SET (i-2 SW)
are tabulated below.
| Component
Category |
Description |
| PROCESS OVERVIEW
AND POLICIES |
This is the top-level
manual that provides the overall perspective to the organization’s
processes. It describes the software and maintenance organization
assumed by Profound SET (i-2 SW) along with the roles
and responsibilities. It gives the policies for various
process areas. The overall process architecture is described.
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| PROCESSES & PROCEDURES |
This is a set of
process manuals, describing the process for each of the
areas. Process manuals contain detailed procedures, where
required. These processes are consistent with the policies
in the Process Overview and Policies Manual while containing
sufficient detail to be implemented. |
| TEMPLATES |
Templates are required
for process implementation and are referred to in the
Process manuals. |
| FORMS |
Forms are required
for process implementation and are referred to in the
Process manuals. |
| CHECKLISTS &
GUIDELINES |
Checklists and guidelines
are required for process implementation and are referred
to in the Process manuals. |
Key
Value Proposition
Reduced Organizational Effort:
By using Profound SET (i-2 SW) as a starting
point for your processes, you could save considerable
effort in the documentation activity of your maturity
level 2 processes. Our
estimate is that around 30-40% of your internal
effort and consultant's effort will be saved if
you use Profound SET (i-2 SW) for process documentation,
also saving on your expenses in your
CMMI® journey.
Reduced
Turnaround Time
Since the consultant's effort is reduced
on process documentation, you save your precious
calendar time and deploy resources elsewhere.
Reduced Risk
By adopting this product you also reduce
the risk of not mapping to the CMMI® model.
Customizable
Profound SET (i-2 SW) is customizable
to your organization's specific requirements.
Trusted
advisory
Profound SET (i-2 SW) is backed
by the extensive experience of QAI India's consultants
and assessors who have provided consultancy in
process documentation and implementation for ISO
9000, the Software CMM®, People CMM® and
CMMI® across all the maturity levels for many
software development and maintenance organizations
of various sizes. |
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Contents
of Profound SET (i-2 SW)
The Profound SET (i-2 SW) pack contains the
following:
Profound
SET (i-2 SW) User Manual – this document explains
the steps to adapt Profound SET (i-2 SW) to a specific organization.
One CD (or
a set of two floppies) - this contains the following
as Microsoft Word XP files:
- Profound SET (i-2 SW)
User Manual
- Process Overview and
Policies
- 9 Processes with embedded
procedures
- 24 templates
- 16 forms
- 7 Guidelines and Checklists
®CMM and CMMI are registered in the U.S Patent and Trademark
office by Carnegie Mellon University.
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