The App Store approval of CMMI Mobile Reference took 14 days. I was expecting the same duration for COBIT Mobile Reference app approval, but was  pleasantly surprised to get the approval in 8 days. So now the COBIT Mobile Reference is available for download from the App Store, free of charge.

I spent a weekend developing this app; it’s a basic reference for COBIT 4.1 processes and control objectives. Although it has limited functionality, I find it very useful and hope others will also benefit from it.

I have been working hard–with the help of our VSTS guru David Gowan–on a more functional iPhone app that tracks VSTS work items. I will discuss this app in a future post.

I am also planning other much more sophisticated role-based situational process improvement apps. At this point, I am still struggling with the appropriate representation of an end-to-end process on mobile devices. For the content of these apps, I am considering MOF, EPF, and a version of SCRUM, and am open to suggestions.

My overarching goal is to make the internalization of codified process improvement bodies of knowledge easier for practitioners.

On a separate note, I am amazed, given the iPhone tool set and developers’ support and using the right process, how rapidly iPhone apps can be developed.

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