Technical Issues

1. Are facilitated application specification methods used to aid in communication among the developer and customer?
2. Are specific techniques used for software analysis?
3. Do you use specific techniques for data and architectural design?
4. Is more that 90 % of your code written in a high-order language?
5. Are special conventions for code documentation defined and used?
6. Do you use specific techniques for test case design?
7. Are software tools are used to support planning and tracking activities?
8. Are management software tools configure used to track change activity and control by the software process?
9. Are software tools used to support the design process and software analysis?
10. Are tools used to build software prototypes?
11. Are the software tools used to support the testing process?
12. Are the software tools used to support the management of documentation and production?
13. Are excellence metrics collected for all software projects?
14. Are productivity metrics collected for all the software projects?

If a majority answered "no" of the above questions, software process is risk is high and weak.