What concrete steps should be taken to verify that the software process of an organization or a company has reached the level claimed to have been reached according to the CMMI scale?
The first thing is to verify if the assessment was conducted using a formal method, like the SCAMPI. When a formal method has not been used, is quite difficult to verify if the claimed level was achieved (it doesn’t mean necessarily that the level has not been attained). If the type of relationship with the company or agency allows (e.g. if you are becoming an important client), you can request access to the report produced by the formal assessment. We would first verify if the person who conducted the appraisal is an accredited lead appraiser; the SEI WEB site publishes the directory of accredited appraisers and, if there is still doubt, you can verify his/her status directly with the SEI. Remember that the SEI will not reveal any nominative information on the companies or the agencies, and only provides information relative to the lead appraisers. A non-accredited lead assessor is not necessarily incompetent, but does not have objective means to validate his or her competence in the
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