A Beginner's Look at Process Improvement Documentation
Ronald A. Starbuck · 2004
®® ® Integration (CMMI ® ) is derived from the structural concepts outlined in the Software Engineering Institute’s (SEI) Software Process Framework (SPF) [2]. This model gives organizations the foundation they need to recognize and document the different positions and tasks used in the SWCMM [3], and establishes the architecture needed for doing process definition. The SPF, as we discovered, embodies what many in software development consider the foremost in best practices for implementing software process improvement. The architecture used in it for process definition is built on an operational framework of process information types comprised of policy, standards, processes, and procedures. We will explore what constitutes this process definition and the operational framework more closely in the following sections.