Planning Smarter: Creating Blueprint-Quality Software Specifications

Part 1: Background

1. Your Name: ________________________________________________________________

2. Check the level that characterizes the process capability of the project team:

   ____ Initial—Mostly ad hoc and seat-of-the-pants development

   ____ Repeatable—Project management processes in place

   ____ Defined—Standardized and documented software development process

   ____ Managed—Quantitative measures of quality and performance are monitored

   ____ Optimizing—Process feedback is used to improve managed and defined systems

   ____ Adaptive—An optimizing process that can also adapt to changing requirements

   Note: This is a fairly technical question that may be difficult for many people to answer, but it is interesting to see where the reviewer believes the organization ...