g., total number of labor hours).
Response: Our goal is to have nearly no follow-up interviews. For planning
purposes, you may want to consider allowing time for two one-hour
follow-up interviews with four people each for a total of eight labor hours for
the interviewees.
11. Do Lead Appraisers interpret the CMMI (key) practices as required or
expected? Please elaborate. Under what conditions is an ???alternate practice???
acceptable in satisfying the CMMI?
Response: Specific practices and generic practices are expected model components.
Expected components are practices an organization will typically
implement when it is trying to satisfy a set of specific and generic goals. Ordinarily,
an alternative practice has to contribute an equivalent effect toward
satisfying the goal associated with the practice. In some cases, an alternative
practice may not explicitly contribute an equivalent effect because a
project??™s characteristics are different from the characteristics assumed in the
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