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Process performance models case study
1. A Process Performance
Models Case Study
Based on sample (from) 450 project
feasibility checks
and
Presented with practical usage and
implementation tips
2. Agenda and Topics
• Opening
• Organizational Background and Process ROI
• Project Idea and Proposal Preposition Development
• Quality Audits and Progress Check Calibration
• Call and Incident Center Performance
• Case Studies and High Level Process
• Project Idea and Proposal Preposition Development
• Quality Audits and Progress Check Calibration
• Call and Incident Center Performance
• Main Questions for High Maturity Process
Improvement
• Pilot Lessoned Learned
3. Definition of Process
• A set of interrelated activities, which
transform inputs into outputs, to achieve a
given purpose.
5. Measuring Process Performance
• Key Questions
• What is the current performance?
• Is this value "good"?
• Is it changing?
• How can I make the value “better”?
• Candidate Attributes
• Definition (completeness, compatibility)
• Usage (compliance, consistency)
• Stability (repeatability, variability)
• Effectiveness (capability)
• Efficiency (productivity, affordability)
• Predictive Ability (accuracy, effects of tailoring and
improvements)
6. Some Examples
Goal Measure
Completeness The number of process elements added, changed, and deleted during
tailoring.
Compliance Number of discrepancy reports generated by Quality Assurance audits
Stability The number of process elements changed within a specified time
(volatility) interval.
Effectiveness Product quality
Effectiveness Defect leakage to subsequent phases
Efficiency Productivity (or production coefficient)
Efficiency Rework as a fraction of total effort
Predictability Probability distribution for an estimated quantity or related population
statistics
7. Opening
• Typically when one read the CMMI-SVC he may think
on the classic service provider organization
• The model provides guidance for the application of
CMMI best practices by the service provider organization.
• Best practices in the model focus on activities for
providing quality services to the customer and end users.
• In this presentation the ‘services’ is a project feasibility
checks provided by a dedicated group
9. Organizational Background and Process ROI
Project Idea and Proposal Preposition
Development
• If an average developer day cost is ~7000
• The total Program effort was 10220 day (100%)
• The testing phase was 1480 day (14.5%)
• Defect that are the result of documentation are 69% of all defects
• If we will assume the to correct 69% of all defects will take around 40% of the
testing duration; means that:
• that will be 740 day
• With the overall cost of 518000
• However to add 100 review days in the static tests and another 20 of code
inspection will end with the cost of 2100000
• And still we have saved at least 3080000 (440 days)
• Means that we ware able to reduce 4.5% of the project time
10. Organizational Background and Process ROI
• Quality Audits and Progress Check
Calibration
• As for today most of major industries which runs and mange large and
complex programs need to comply with more than just one quality
standards in many disciplines (e.g. HW, optics, software) use large groups
of internal and external assessors that perform implementation checks,
progress checks, readiness reviews and formal appraisals.
• These communities are typically composed from groups of very
experienced and professional individuals that have the best knowledge in
their professional domain but not necessarily on how to conduct an
efficient and effective appraisal which provide meaningful results
• The combination of the effort and expected resources increase the risks on
qualification of auditors, domain knowledge, and calibration of results and
findings effectiveness
11. Organizational Background and Process ROI
• Quality Audits and Progress Check
Calibration
• By measuring the following attributes, we were able to increase usability
of the progress checks by 47%, and quality of deliverables by 37%
• Role based profile and criteria
• Calibration mechanism and criteria
• Evaluation mechanism and criteria
• Leveling the different quality engineers and ‘auditors’
• Flowing specific trainings (on different levels) as personal development and
qualification criteria
• Listing specific performances as indicators for leveling justifications
• Structuring the different audits and reporting guidelines in a single mandatory
to follow process,
12. Main Steps for High Maturity
Process Improvement
• During our analysis and planning, we were able to identify
improvement targets in main lifecycle areas such as
• operations,
• information,
• governance,
• people
• organizational structure,
• portfolios,
• project execution,
• finance.
• And as in core process that are critical to the system success such as
stakeholder management, technical interfaces and integration.
13. Main Steps for High Maturity
Process Improvement
As the result of this observation we have built an action plan,
• Then in the second step we have built a services roadmap
using the CMMI-SVC, that allow companies to begin the
improvement journey, and manage the transformation to
maturity by building on each successive step, and
ultimately delivering the benefits expected:
• service reuse,
• improved perception
• response time,
• interoperability,
• business agility.
• Service performance and its impact on the organization
governance is a significant part of that journey
14. Organizational Background and
Call and Incident Center Performance
• The service provider provides a large number of services
to its customers, which are mainly departments from a
sibling organization.
• To manage the communication with customers regarding
those services, the department has implemented helpdesk
management and problem management processes.
• The implementation of these processes has been based on
the CMMI-SVC with elements of other CMMIs (for the
organization maturity) and ITIL (for the individuals’
education).
15. Organizational Background and
Call and Incident Center Performance
• Program Management Office is used to guarantee the
continuity of services, while Analysts Management Team
is used to improve the level of service in the future. So,
PMO deals with requests, whereas Requirements
Management Team is concerned with solving the
challenges that cause these requests.
• The goal of this case study was to assess the quality and
performance of the feasibility checks Management process.
16. Process
Project Idea and Proposal Preposition Development
The Need Project
Statement Feasibility Check
Project Office
Preposition
Project Team
System
Development and
Acquisition
System
Validation
17. Managed Process for Innovation
Strategize Capture Formulate Evaluate Define Select Deliver
Define PMO
Program Strategy Reviews Idea
Prioritize Run Portfolio
Program Strategy Analysis
Approval
Capture Idea
Enterprise Build Project Team
Search
Publish Idea to Execute Project
Portal Design-
Operational Potential-
Legal Evaluation-
Develop
Feasibility Case Customer Feedback
Strategic Impact -
System Potential -
Finalize Design
Financials -
SWOT- Document
Publish
Operational Case Approval
Community Ratings and Reviews
25. Process
Quality Audits and Progress Check Calibration
Plan Assessment
Prepare for
Assessment
Gather Data
Consolidate Data
Organize and
Combine Data
Determine Data Review and Revise
Sufficiency Data Gathering Plans
Make Rating
Judgments
Report Results
26. Process
Quality Audits and Progress Check Calibration
Ratings
Findings
Observations
Notes
Interviews Doc Review Instruments Presentations
Data
27. Center
min 0%
max 100%
ave 50%
sample Projects 104
% From ORG 100.00%
Sample Practices 19629
% From Sample 100.00%
is 0 2649
% of is 0 13.50%
>4 9147
% of >4 46.60%
<4 7828
% of <4 39.88%
is 4 2654
% of is 4 13.52%
>6 4818
% of >6 24.55%
mean #NUM!
median 4
mode 8
VAR 7.279