Exercise 12.1

How would you rate your project team on its:

1. CMM maturity level?
   1. At what level are you operating now?
   2. What would it take to move up to the next level?


2. CMMI core process areas? (Focus on those listed in the guide.)
   1. In which of these areas are you the strongest?
   2. In which of these areas would you most like to improve?
   3. How do agile methods tend to do in this area?

Note how W.E. Deming’s theories on quality control have been applied in software engineering.

Exercise 12.2

What team project metrics do we collect to measure the following things?

• Product
• Process

How would you characterize the metrics you identify on these scales?

• Objective vs. Subjective
• Direct vs. Indirect
• Public vs. Private

Note T. DeMarco’s (more recent) observations on his oft-quoted statement: “You can’t control what you can’t measure.”