Help! How Do I Make My Organization Comply With Yet Another New Model?

摘要

"Help! We have to revise all our ISO 9000 processes to meet the CMM!" Or, "Help, we're compliant with the CMM but now we have to write new processes for ISO 12207!" Or, "I don't want to write systems engineering processes to EIA/IS 731 because I'm only going to have to rewrite them to CMMI."rnIf these sound familiar, it is because organizations are currently faced with the prospect of having to shift their process improvement attention from a current model, such as EIA/IS 731, ISO 9000, or the Capability Maturity Model for Software (SW-CMM) to a new model, such as the Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI)~(sm). To some shifting seems a daunting feat; in many cases it has taken years to adapt to the current model, and to start all over seems to negate the value of the current investment.rnThis paper shows that capability models (and other process standards such as ISO 9000) generally ask the organization to do similar or identical things, and adopting a new model should be approached as mapping and modifying rather than as starting over.