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[polarsys-iwg] Maturity Assessment: Minutes of the meeting
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Hiho all,
Thank you for attending the Maturity Assessment conference call. Here
are some notes about what was said, you are welcome to comment on this mail.
The goal of this meeting was to validate the metrics used in the 1st
version of the maturity assessment, which is planned for the end of the
year. They can be seen here: http://dashboard.castalia.camp
We also presented a schedule to get feedback from people at specific dates:
* From now on, we will setup the preliminary scales (normalising metrics
values to a 1-5 range) with statistical methods and improve the
description of metrics, questions and attributes and the presentation of
results. This will be completed by the end of the month.
* Monday, the 1st of December 16h00 UTC: present scales and aggregation
of metrics. This will be a first round, since we'll setup a survey that
will run during the first two weeks of December to get feedback on the
scales and thresholds.
* Monday, the 15th of December 16h00 UTC: have a final review, after
integrating feedback from the experts (you!). From there we will collect
metrics on more projects to demonstrate the fully-featured quality model
beginning of 2015.
# The 2.x version of the maturity model
Some of the feedback received could not be integrated in the current
scope because of the time frame, e.g. add metrics about reviews, more
PMI metrics, more attributes (security), surveys, etc.
They are currently investigated on a specific 2.x branch of the product
and will be made available in the second version of the product, in 2015.
# Specific note on metrics aggregation
The metrics will be normalised (with the scales), then aggregated up to
questions, then to attributes up to the root. Whenever there is more
than one child, the mean (or median, to be decided) is used for the
aggregation. If needed, one may set weights on each child to adapt the
process to specific contexts (customisation of the model is one of our
requirements). As researchers, this is the best we could do from a
statistical perspective. Any comment on the aggregation method is
welcome, too.
That's all, folks.
We are continuously updating the polarsys dashboard at
http://dashboard.castalia.camp so please do not hesitate to send
comments, feedback or opinions to the mailing list.
Regards,
--
boris