This sort of mentality shows that this organization does not understand process
improvement, is not really dedicated to it, and will not reap lasting benefits from
it. It just wants the rating. The death march approach has failed for many, many
organizations. Even organizations that have successfully ???passed??? an appraisal have
slipped back because of lack of a solid foundation and true institutionalization.
Process Action teams (PAts)
How do the PATs work? An EPG member leads a specific PAT. The PATs are conducted
like the EPG (charters, agendas, behaviors, tracking action items, etc.). No
one sits on a PAT without receiving training in the process area under development,
otherwise, the PAT member doesn??™t really know what is expected and what he is
supposed to do, so he makes it up as he goes along, straying from the CMMI. PAT
member qualifications are the same as for the EPG.
If the EPG has not developed templates, before beginning this effort, a PAT
might be created to do just that so that all of the PATs follow the same structure,
reducing the need to rewrite documentation.
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