The Quality Improvement on UPM System in the Nuclear Power Corporation

As the core information system, the Unified Process Management (UPM) system covers the critical business processes in large enterprises. To achieve stable operation of the system and high quality of the processes is the key requirements from these enterprises. The original UPM system has ambiguous IT roles and responsibilities and lacks of important management schemes in the course of software development, such as requirement management scheme, test management scheme, system design and evaluation scheme, system release scheme, documentation management scheme, etc. The present UPM system achieves great improvements by establishing quality improvement model based on CMMI3 in many aspects, such as clear IT roles and responsibilities, planned release, establishment of requirements management scheme and document management scheme, etc. And also the system improves stability and process quality and eventually wins high customer satisfaction. This article mainly describes the quality improvement practices of the UPM system based on CMMI3.