An example of a nonprocess improvement pilot may
be when an organization switches from a nonautomated system to an automated
one. In that case, maybe only a few offi ces within a department may pilot the system
or only portions of the new system may be tried. Process improvement pilots
can work the same way, except that we focus on piloting processes, not developed
systems.
These checklists were made for pilots that follow a ???quasi-experimental design,???
not those that follow an ???experimental design.??? Most of you in software or systems
engineering won??™t really care. Those of you who are social scientists conducting
blind and double-blind studies might take offense at some of the items left out of
these checklists. For example, we do not impale ourselves over the integrity of raw
data, and we do not draw intermediate and final conclusions that can be traced
back to the raw data. We also do not assign accountability. For more information
on quasi-experimental versus experimental design, we suggest you contact Charlie
Weber, one of the original authors of the CMM for Software.
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