Expert mentoring: assistente inteligente para auxiliar gerentes na determinação de evidências objetivas requeridas na avaliação MA-MPS

Abstract

The evaluation of software process is considered an important tool and commonly used to point out the way, where the organization must apply its efforts to improve processes. In particular, the assessment process proposed by the MA-MPS requires the presentation of objective evidence showing satisfaction of the expected results of processes and results of process attributes of a certain level of maturity. The problem of presentation of objective evidence boils down in the difficulty of the managers responsible for processes in interpreting these results described in the Spreadsheet of Indicators. In addition, there are cases where the implementer of the MPS model not has enough time to monitor the entire fill or revision of the spreadsheet, before submitting it for evaluation of processes. Thus, the occurrence of errors in filling can occur and affect the outcome of the evaluation. In this context, is presented the intelligent assistant, Expert Mentoring, which is designed to support, through questions, the managers responsible for processes in the interpreting the expected results of processes and results of attributes of process described in the Spreadsheet of Indicators, where the final of these questions will suggest direct and indirect indicators, which are more suitable for proof of these results. In this sense, the main results of the evaluation of the Expert Mentoring were: decreasing the number of errors in completing the spreadsheet, and recall the name of the indicator, even before the suggestion of the intelligent assistant.