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    SSC Pacific Process Asset Library

    (a repository of Center-level standard process assets)

"If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.”
--- W. Edwards Deming

"The quality of a software system is governed by the quality of the process used to develop it.”
--- Watts Humphrey

Process graphic

"When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it;
but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the
stage of science.”
--- Lord Kelvin

"It is always fastest to do the job right the first time”
--- Watts Humphrey
 

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Web Page Reviewed and Approved by Tom LaPuzza, SSC Pacific Public Affairs Office (approval on file) 

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Commanding Officer
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53560 Hull Street
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About This Web Site

Sub-web of SSC Pacific Public Web Site

The SSC Pacific Process Asset Library (PAL) is a sub-web of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific public Web site, which can be accessed by clicking the SSC Pacific link on the right.  To return here, click About SSC Pacific and then Systems Engineering Process Office (SEPO).

Purpose

The primary purpose of this Web site is to make available to SSC Pacific a usable set of organizational process assets in accordance with the goals and practices of the Capability Maturity Model® Integration (CMMI®) Organizational Process Definition (OPD) Process Area (PA).  The secondary purpose is to help all players on the SSC Pacific team, including our industry partners, other government associates, and others in the field by sharing this resource.

Intended Audience

Our intended audience includes process improvement professionals, such as SEPO staff, Department Systems/Software Process Improvement (SPI) Agents, and project SPI Leads, as well as Project Managers, Systems Engineers, Software Project Managers, Software Engineers, and support practitioners, such as QA and CM specialists.

Alignment with Balanced Scorecard

This Web site, related Web sites on the intranet, and SEPO training support the SSC Pacific Balanced Scorecard (BSC) strategic objectives to Sustain high levels of customer satisfaction and to Increase organizational efficiency.

Best Practices and Continuous Process Improvement

By applying best practices and continually improving our processes on projects across the Center in the disciplines of Project Management (PM), Systems Engineering (SE), and Software Engineering (SW), we expect to continually improve our process capability and organizational maturity.  Improved capability and maturity results in cost benefits, schedule realism and control, improved quality in products and services, improved customer satisfaction, and other ROI benefits. (see the Business Case for Best Practices and Performance Results of CMMI-Based Process Improvement).  See Process Improvement Initiatives at SSC Pacific for a description of our process improvement initiatives and how they are related.

Hierarchy of PALs and OMRs

The Center's Process Asset Libraries (PALs) and Organizational Measurement Repositories (OMRs) reside at both the Center and organization levels.  The SSC Pacific PAL (this Web site) and SSC Pacific OMR reside at the Center level, with analogous representations at the organization level (e.g., Department, Division, Branch, or domain).  Each organization should tailor from the SSC Pacific PAL (and can adapt other standards, as well), in accordance with Center level tailoring guidelines, to fit its unique business needs.  In a similar fashion, individual projects should use and tailor process assets from their organization's PAL, in accordance with their organization's tailoring guidelines, into project-specific policies, standards, plans, processes, procedures, training, tools, etc. and maintain project-specific measurements.  The following graphic represents the relationships and feedback loops between the Center, organization, and project with respect to the transformation of process assets to the project.

Thus, the Center level (SSC Pacific) standard process assets, by design, provide flexible and adaptable structures to the various business domains within the Center so they, in turn, may be progressively tailored into more specialized and more detailed standard process assets for more specific applications at lower organizational levels.  Similarly, in reverse fashion, measurements and lessons learned at the lowest levels should be aggregated (rolled up) to satisfy measurement needs and improvements at higher levels.  The graphic below depicts these relationships:

Improving the Organization's Set of Standard Processes

These process asset libraries and measurement repositories are intended to be part of a dynamic, two-way communications process, which includes SPI Agent consulting.  In this way, real world implementation experience, ideas, and improvements from the projects can benefit everyone at the Center.

Terms of Use

This Web site is in the public domain and therefore, can be used by anyone.  You are more than welcome to use and reference our processes in your documentation.  The only thing that we ask is that you appropriately cite the reference document and source (SSC Pacific Process Asset Library at http://sepo.spawar.navy.mil/).

User Feedback

SEPO relies on user feedback to gauge the value provided by this Web site and justify the cost of maintaining it.  If you find this Web site useful, please let us know by sending your comments to sepo@spawar.navy.mil.  We are interested in what you found valuable and why, as well as any suggestions you have for improvement.  Your inputs are very much appreciated.  Your Website comments have encouraged us to keep this Web site in the public domain and your suggestions have motivated and guided improvements.  We also ask for examples, templates, lessons learned, Web links, etc. that we can incorporate into this Web site to improve the content.

Notes

  1. ® Capability Maturity Model, CMMI, and SW-CMM are registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by Carnegie Mellon University.

Last Update: October 08, 2009

 


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