MITRE Configuration
Management
MITRE configuration
management has been popular for some time. Recently I came across an
article that was focused on knowledge management and process
improvement using CMMI for Configuration Management. Here is my
abridged version.
MITRE configuration
management - CMMI at a large Defense
establishment
A large Defense
organization recently went through a tough process of
self-assessment and came up with some goals for improvement,
including greater attention to the processes it uses. A team in
MITRE's Systems Engineering Process Office is working through their
Chief Engineer Office to help them use CMMI as part of this effort.
The CMMI model groups
related practices into process areas. Process areas in the
engineering category, for example, may include requirements
development or technical solution. Other categories are support,
project management, and process Management.
“In our environment,
one process area is configuration management, where we want to be
sure we can establish baselines, track and control changes to those
baselines, and ensure that the integrity of those baselines is
maintained."
The processes then are
evaluated according to their capability level. The six capability
levels measure how much a process has matured, and range from a low
of "incomplete," defined as "ad hoc work activities," to a high of
"optimizing," defined as "focus on quantitative continuous process
improvement."
MITRE configuration
management – CMMI and Capability levels
Capability levels
indicate the extent of process improvement within a process area,
and they're cumulative. If an organization uses the capability level
as a measure of its maturity, it can select the process areas it
wants to work on and the level it wants to attain in each of those
areas.
We noticed some
interesting relationships between the capability levels of CMMI and
the Operational Readiness Index (ORI) that indicates the readiness
of a military unit to perform its assigned missions. When the
capability level is ‘optimizing,’ the ORI is outstanding.
“The Software
Engineering Institute reported a yearly reduction in post-release
defect reports of 10–94 percent, a yearly reduction in time to
market of 15–23 percent, and a growth in the ratio of return on
investment from 4:1 to almost 9:1.”
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