Summary

Analyze results of all verification activities.

Description

Actual results should be compared to established verification criteria to determine acceptability. The results of the analysis of verification results are recorded as evidence that verification was conducted. The acquirer might consult supplier work product verification results and reports to conduct verification activities of acquirer work products.

Refer to the Acquisition Technical Management (ATM) (CMMI-ACQ) process area for more information about evaluating the supplier’s technical solution and managing selected interfaces of that solution.


For each work product, all available verification results are incrementally analyzed and corrective actions are initiated to ensure that documented requirements have been met. Corrective actions are typically integrated into project monitoring activities. Since a peer review is one of several verification methods, peer review data should be included in this analysis activity to ensure that verification results are analyzed sufficiently.

Analysis reports or “as-run” method documentation may also indicate that bad verification results are due to method problems, criteria problems, or verification environment problems.

Refer to the Project Monitoring and Control (PMC) (CMMI-ACQ) process area for more information about taking corrective action.


Example Work Products



  1. Analysis report (e.g., statistics on work product performance, causal analysis of nonconformances, comparison of the behavior between the real product and models, trends)
  2. Trouble reports
  3. Change requests for verification methods, criteria, and the environment


Example Supplier Deliverables



  1. Verification results
  2. Verification reports


Subpractices



  1. Compare actual results to expected results.
  2. Based on the established verification criteria, identify products that do not meet their requirements or identify problems with methods, procedures, criteria, and the verification environment.
  3. Analyze the defect data.
  4. Record all results of the analysis in a report.
  5. Provide information on how defects can be resolved (including verification methods, criteria, and verification environment) and formalize it in a plan.