But the EPG should be representative
of your entire organization??”not just the QA department.
Besides, QA and the EPG serve different functions. QA reviews both the products
built and the activities that occur on a project. The EPG is responsible for
reviewing processes that occur across the organization. Therefore, there is some
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overlap. However, QA??™s primary role focuses on the projects, while the EPG focuses
on processes throughout the organization. The EPG does not concentrate on products
??”that is QA??™s job.
What about standards? Doesn??™t QA review products to see if they conform to
standards? Yes. However, one of the flaws of both the CMM and the CMMI is that
the authors of both models assumed that organizations had standards in place and
were using them. While some of the older, larger, more mature organizations did
have standards, the smaller, younger ones did not. So before they could focus on
process, they had to back up and devise some product standards. In their search
for standards, they often just usurped the standards written for DOD (MIL-STD-
2167A, MIL-STD-498, IEEE, NIST, FipsPub) or they just copied standards from
a previous workplace.
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