2.3.4 Experience with Extending CMMI^SM for Safety Related Applications

Abstract

+SAFE, a safety extension to the Capability Maturity Model -Integrated (CMMI) has been developed and trialed in Australia, for use in assessing suppliers of safety-related systems. This paper describes the latest version of the safety extension and also reports on the results of seven trials.

Measuring hazard identification

“…The measures can be used as a basis for quantified hazard identification process improvement. For organisations who assess their maturity using schemes such as +Safe [9] then both (2) and (3) may be useful predictors of process improvement. The major disadvantage is that both measures need at least two independent analysis teams.…”

Designing process maturity measure of Total Information Quality Management (TIQM)

“…As in development of business intelligence maturity model [20]. CMM has been used by the Australian Department of Defence to assess organizations ability to develop safety related systems, with added safety aspects at CMM [21]. CMM has been used to develop the use of information technology and communication maturity model in schools education [22], build a data warehouse process maturity model [23], and research in 48 development data and information quality management process maturity models [5], [24], [25], [26], [27], [28], [29], [30], [31].…”

A Maturity Model of Enterprise Business Intelligence

“…For instance, a safety extension to the CMM has helped the Australian Department of Defence in assessing the organisation's capability for developing safety related systems (Bofinger, Robinson and Lindsay 2002). While Li (2007) employed CMM approach to provide organisations with the essential elements of effective processes, Daneshgar, Ramarathinam and Ray (2008) adapted an IT service CMM to address the appropriate levels of collaboration and knowledge sharing in organisations, whereas Sen and Ramamurthy (2006) developed a data warehousing process maturity based on CMM.…”