How organisations, projects, and individuals actually know their work is good: ISO 9001 and its software-specific descendants, CMMI's graduated maturity model, PRINCE2's quality theme, and the same maturity thinking applied to a single learner's own study process and to what a UK Bachelor's degree is formally meant to produce.
Every framework covered elsewhere in this series — Waterfall's stage gates, Scrum's sprint cadence, a WBS's decomposition — answers "how do we plan and sequence the work?" This page and its two companions answer a…
The previous page ended on a problem: ISO 9001 was written for physical manufacturing, and its vocabulary doesn't map cleanly onto software. The ISO family's own answer to that problem isn't a replacement standard —…
ISO 9001 asks a binary question of an organisation's quality system: does it meet the standard, or not? CMMI asks a different, more graduated question: how good, specifically, is this organisation at doing what it does…
Everything else in this series — Waterfall, Agile and its family, the scheduling techniques — describes how work gets sequenced and delivered . PRINCE2 answers a related but distinct question: how is a project governed?…
This page applies CMMI , a model for assessing organisations, to a single person's study practice — not as a validated psychometric instrument, but as a lens with real precedent. Watts Humphrey, having built the…
Most students never read the document that formally defines what a Bachelor's degree is supposed to produce. The UK's Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) sets out exactly that, at Level 6 of its…