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Process Improvement Additional Information

1. Understand the organization’s existing set of software engineering practices.
     Identify strengths and weaknesses
     Identify improvement actions

2. Facilitate process improvement actions.
     Build ownership in the results
     Reinforce management commitment.

3. Process Improvement Goals and Measures

4. Process Improvement Areas
     Identify and describe the areas of focus along with their priorities to achieve the
        organization improvement goals

5. Project Organisation
     The project life cycle
     The roles and responsibilities of individuals involved
     Identify and monitor the planned staffing levels
     Identify and describe any other resources and funding necessary
     Identify all assumptions and constraints (An example of an assumption is that people
        will be made available for the work. A constraint would be that a project underway must be
        finish by a known date.)
     Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) created for each major element in the project
     Identify a list of deliverables and descriptions
     Identify relationships or dependencies among the efforts
     Document & monitor a planned schedule for the work

6. Management Processes
     Identify milestones
     Describe the milestone decision points
     Identify the types of progress and technical reviews
     Identify an approach for risk management & mitigation

7. Technical Approach
     Identify how/when the process action teams will be trained and coached
     Identify how the team will gather information about approaches and how they will use them,
        modify them or develop new ones

8. Communication Plan
     Ensure all the stakeholders have been identified who need to be kept informed of different
       aspects of the project
     A communication plan must be laid out to communicate progress to all stakeholders