A Nominal Group Interview Technique to Support Lightweight Process Assessments: Description and Experience Report
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This paper describes a group interview technique designed to support lightweight process assessments while promoting at the same time collaboration among assessment participants. The method was successfully used in one consulting assignment were it got previously discording participants, talking to each other and agreeing on the issues. The technique borrows from agile software development the concept of user stories to cast CMMI’s specific practices in concrete terms and the Planning Poker technique, instead of document reviews and audit like interviews, for fact finding and corroboration.
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