Anyone who’s looking for additional information about data sufficiency for Basic Units and Support Functions per the new MDD for SCAMPI v1.3 should take a look at the CMMI Main Group at Linked-IN for this thread.
A colleague recently asked me about hybrid SCAMPI Appraisals; that is, a combination appraisal consisting of two or more CMMI constellations. As of this writing there is no official way to conduct a hybrid appraisal that results in the granting of a Maturity Level rating for two or more constellations, without essentially conducting two separate appraisals at the same time.
What I describe below will in most cases satisfy the intent of a hybrid appraisal, and is completely permissible according to the rules in effect today.
- Determine whether the client is a services organization that does software, or a software organization that provides services
- Don’t forget that SaaS is all in vogue these days; so software development (simple stuff, web dev, web content) could be a service.
- Don’t forget that for now you can use the DEV constellation for a services organization.
- Prepare and train for all constellations; e.g. Dev + SVCs supplement or SVCs + Dev supplement, etc.
- Conduct a staged representation appraisal for the constellation they do the most of, and conduct a continuous representation appraisal for just the non-core PAs from the other constellation. E.g. all of DEV and SD, IRP, CAM, STSM, SSD, SCON, SST or all of SVCS and RD, TS, PI, VER and VAL.
- Ensure sure you consider the additional context provided for the core PAs where appropriate.
- The client will get a maturity level rating for the constellation of their main discipline.
- They’ll get a capability profile showing they are CL X in all the PAs for the other constellation(s).
- You’ll have to sell your client and their market that this is the equivalent of a hybrid DEV/SVCs appraisal, which it is.
Hope this helps.
