Measuring your CM Process 

Recently a couple of emails from readers have touched on the subject of how to determine the maturation of their CM process. In our opinion there is no single answer, however we believe the following combined activities are a solid start.

1. Compare your software process to the Capability Maturity Model.  

2. Do a formal CM Gap Analysis (see our GAP questionnaire).

3. Introduce post project reviews i.e. where project discusses CM effectiveness. 

4. Use metrics to measure your progress and alert you to problems (Trend Analysis).

Below we list a few simple CM metrics that we have used to support the CM audit process. However, be careful,  the real power of metrics comes from the ability to compare them with historical data i.e. trend analysis. Hence the longer you collect the CM data the more useful, valuable and accurate your evaluation becomes.

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