However, it is up to the Lead Appraiser to keep the
organization honest and to ensure that the organizational unit is clearly identified
in the appraisal report.
As we discussed in earlier chapters, appraisals consider three categories of model
components as defined in the CMMI:
1. Required: Specific Goals (SGs) and Generic Goals (GGs)
2. Expected: Specific Practices (SPs) and Generic Practices (GPs)
3. Informative: Everything else in the model. This includes subpractices, typical
work products, goal titles, practice titles, amplifications, and elaborations.
The Appraisal Team must find an indication that projects and organizational
groups within the organization unit are satisfying the required specific and generic
goals. Appraisal Teams generally look at the practices associated with the goals
to decide whether the goals have been met. This is done through examination of
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project and organizational practices to see that they are ???compliant with??? or support
the specific and generic practices.
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