CMMI® Assessments: Motivating Positive Change

Chapter 11. The Final Stages of an Onsite Assessment: Summing Up and Presenting Results

At the end of an assessment, after interviewing is finished, the assessment team must (1) consolidate its provisional observations and (2) present them to an assembly of the organization in a draft (or preliminary) findings meeting, which asks the organization to verify the accuracy of the findings; the team must then (3) consolidate the confirmed information into a series of KPA/PA ratings and determine a global maturity level rating for the organization being assessed and (4) organize a final findings meeting that presents the verified conclusions and their associated ratings within the larger picture of the organization’s working processes.

The draft findings ...