CMM - L 2 - Repeatable - SSM, SQM and SCM

Software Subcontract Management

The purpose of Software Subcontract Management is to select qualified software subcontractors and manage them effectively.

Software Quality Assurance

The purpose of Software Quality Assurance is to provide management with appropriate visibility into the process being used by the software project and of the products being built Software Quality Assurance involves reviewing and auditing the software products and activities to verify that they comply with the applicable procedures and standards and providing the software project and other appropriate managers with the results of these reviews and audits.

The software quality assurance group works with the software project during its early stages to establish plans, standards, and procedures that will add value to the software project and satisfy the constraints of the project and the organization's policies.

Goals

- Software Quality Assurance activities are planned.
- Adherence of software products and activities to the applicable standards, procedures, and requirements is verified objectively.
- Noncompliance issues that cannot be resolved within the software project are addressed by senior management.
- Some of the activities performed include the SQA group participating in the review of products, review of activities etc.

Software Configuration Management

The purpose of Software Configuration Management is to establish and maintain the integrity of the products of the software project throughout the project's software life cycle.

A software baseline library is established containing the software baselines as they are developed. Changes to baselines and the release of software products built from the software baseline library are systematically controlled via the change control and configuration auditing functions of software configuration management

Some Goals at this level are : Software CM activities are planned. Selected work products are identified and controlled.Changes to the work products are controlled.