ISO Certification for XP at LogicaCMG

Paul Grew (Paul.Grew@logicacmg.com) of LogicaCMG shares his XP team’s experience with getting ISO 9000 certification.

LogicaCMG Mobile Payments have been using XP to create new products for the telecoms market since the last quarter of 2003. They adopted all the practices described in Kent Beck’s book and were mentored by Exoftware for 9 months. They have been though an ISO TickiT recertification audit and came out favourably with the auditor being complimentary about our process. It was felt that the process should be as simple as possible from the point of view that: if it is said that a process is followed then the development team must have evidence to prove it.”

[Paul provided this diagram:]

Lifecycle

[Written June, 2004, by Paul Grew.]