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. 
Role:  Process Engineer 
Optionality/Occurrence:  Often produced outside the scope of a single project.
Templates and Reports: 
  • Development-Organization Assessment

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    UML Representation:  Not applicable.
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    Purpose To top of page

    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 To top of page

    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 To top of page

    A Process Engineer is responsible for the Development-Organization Assessment.

    Tailoring To top of page

    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.

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