Artifact: Development-Organization
Assessment
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The Development-Organization Assessment describes the current status of the software organization in terms of current process, tools, peoples' competencies, peoples' attitudes, customers, competitors, technical trends, problems, and improvement areas. |
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| Role: | Process Engineer |
| Optionality/Occurrence: | Often produced outside the scope of a single project. |
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| UML Representation: | Not applicable. |
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| Input to Activities: | Output from Activities: |
Purpose
The Development-Organization Assessment is used by the process engineer as a basis for configuring the process for a particular project.
The Development-Organization Assessment is also used to:
- Explain to the sponsors why there is a need to change process, tools, and people.
- Create motivation and a common understanding among the people in the organization who are directly, or indirectly, affected.
Timing
All though the Development-Organization Assessment is an essential input to activities performed to define a project's environment, it is often produced outside the scope of a single project, as part of the development organization's overall process engineering effort. We recommend that you adjust this to reflect the characteristics of your project organization as part of producing a tailored version of the development process. See Activity: Tailor the Process for the Project, Step: Analyze the project for further details.
Responsibility
A Process Engineer is responsible for the Development-Organization Assessment.
Tailoring
Completeness, format and formalism of artifact Development-Organization Assessment
will vary depending on factors like size and type of development, business context,
degree of novelty, to mention a few. For example, a large development organization
developing systems for Air Traffic Control will likely do a very thorough assessment
of the development organization to ensure that they meet certain requirements
imposed on the organization by a range of external stakeholders. Tailor the
Development-Organization Assessment to reflect the organization and development
effort.
