Implementing CMMI using a Combination of Agile Methods

Implementing CMMI using a Combination of Agile Methods

This paper explores the possibility for software companies of getting a CMMI certification of their processes by applying agile practices. For this purpose, starting with CMMI maturity level 2 generic goals and practices, we analyze the applicability of a series of agile methods, identifying their individual or combined contribution in the fulfillment of each process area. The main result of th...

Agile Methods and CMMI: Compatibility or Conflict?

During the last years, agile methods like eXtreme Programming have become increasingly popular. Parallel to this, more and more organizations rely on process maturity models to assess and improve their own processes or those of suppliers, since it has been getting clear that most project failures can be imputed to inconsistent, undisciplined processes. Many organizations demand CMMI compliance ...

CollabNet Success Story: Agile CMMI Large Investment Banking Firm Stays Agile and CMMI Compliant Using CollabNet

1 Agile Methods – Cmmi - Sw : Linking the Two Extremes

The article explores the possible link between agile methods and CMMI-SW. Major issues incited from such link are: documentation, communication, user involvement, and application types. Interrelationships among these issues are highlighted as well, such as the relationship among the first there issues. Then three strategies for such link are proposed: separatism, integration (hybrid/concurrent,...

Using CMMI together with agile software development: A systematic review

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2014.09.012 0950-5849/ 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. ⇑ Corresponding author at: Center of Informatics, Federal University of Pernambuco (CIn/UFPE), Av. Jornalista Anibal Fernandes, S/N, Cidade Universitária, 50. Recife, PE, Brazil. Tel.: +55 81 8250 0470. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (F. Selleri Silva), [email protected] (F.S.F. Soares), alp5@ci...