| CMM Level 4 Quantitative
Analysis and Defect Prevention With Project Examples
September 2000
Alfred W. Florence, The MITRE Corporation
ABSTRACT
The Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) Software (SW)
Capability Maturity Model (CMM) Level 4 Quantitative Analysis
leads into SW-CMM Level 5 activities. Level 4 Software Quality
Management (SQM) Key Process Area (KPA) analysis, which
focuses on product quality, feeds the activities required to
comply with Defect Prevention (DP) at Level 5.[1] Quantitative
Process Management (QPM) at Level 4 focuses on the process
which leads to Technology Change Management (TCM) and
Process Change Management (PCM) at Level 5. At Level 3,
metrics are collected, analyzed and used to status development
and to make corrections to development efforts, as necessary.
At Level 4, measurements are quantitatively analyzed to control
process performance of the project and to develop a quantitative
understanding of the quality of products to achieve specific
quality goals.
Additional Search Keywords
Quantitative Process Management, Software Quality Management, Defect
Prevention, Quantitative Analysis, Statistical Process Control, Control
Charts.
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