Using TSP to implement CMMI
CMMI and TSP are complementary implementations of a common set of principles that have been shown to improve organizational performance. CMMI describes “what” organizations need to implement to improve, and TSP contains operational, “how-to” implementations of these processes, practices, and measures.
The gap analysis is a well-known tool of model-based improvement with CMMI. Using the CMMI as standard, the gaps in an organization’s process are identified and addressed. Because TSP implements most of the practices defined in the CMMI through ML5, TSP can be used to quickly fill the gaps in your organizational process and reduce the time and investment required to achieve improved capability.
While effective, gap analysis has limitations, not the least of which is its inability to look for holes at a different level of abstraction than that provided by the reference model. This limitation can lead to missed opportunities for improvement, or worse, to making changes at one level of abstraction that contradict or interfere with essential feature of your existing process that is operate at a different level. Organizations using TSP to improve performance have identified a few practices that are not emphasized in the CMMI that can dramatically improve performance at all maturity levels.
This presentation focuses on the use of TSP in CMMI-based improvement, providing an overview of TSP, the CMMI practices that TSP addresses, and the TSP practices that will provide even better performance and ROI for your process improvement initiative.
Speakers
Jim Over , Software Process Program Manager, SEI
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