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,...

The paper describes the impact of Agile approach on e-Learning content developed by organizations implementing CMMI methodology. It is shown that new ICT developments ask for an agile updating of some practices in order to implement low cost projects.

Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) is a world-renowned framework for software process improvement, which specifies “What-To-Do” in terms of requirements. However, it leaves the “How-To-Do” part regarding implementation to implementers. The industry especially SMEs (SSMEs) faces difficulties implementing Specific Practices (SPs) Various Process Areas (PAs). Configuration Management Are...

Software process improvement aims at improving the development process of software systems. It is initiated by process assessment identifying strengths and weaknesses and based on the findings, improvement plans are developed. In general, a process reference model (e.g., CMMI) is used throughout the process of software process improvement as the base. CMMI defines a set of process areas involve...

It is well known that software outsourcing projects are more difficult to be managed because of cross organizations participated, especially for those projects with multiple level outsourcing. Although some software vendors passed the certification of CMMI or ISO9000, it is still a big challenge to execute a project in a consistent governance mechanism when the activities happened in different ...

This paper studies the change for capabilities/competencies of Taiwan software firms through physical systems, knowledge and skills, managerial system, and value and norm aspects before and after they introduce CMMI. By conducting qualitative-based multiple case-study approach and using semi-structural questionnaire as the tool, we identified CMMI related organization routines. Grounding on the...

Agile approaches formally appeared ten years ago and nowadays are a valid alternative for organizations developing software. Agile methodologies are especially interesting to those developing Web environments applications, as they can fit properly the special characteristics of this type of developments. In addition, maturity models like CMMI-DEV (Capability Maturity Model Integration for Devel...

There is a lack of surveys in large web development enterprises to determine: the level of adoption of web engineering practices and capability maturity model integration (CMMI) in these enterprises. Therefore, we need a survey in large enterprises to improve their web development processes and overcome their problems during the development process. We focus in this research on answering four q...

As a lesson learned, the readiness review process of SCAMPI appraisal is very complicated and effort and cost consuming for novice organizations who need to know their status of CMMI practices classification. In SCAMPI appraisal, the readiness review process is a single process that runs from start to the end. During the readiness review process, nobody collected database to improve the process...

One lesser known element of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was the establishment in 2011 of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), a federal program administered by the US Department of Health and Human Services. With a $10 billion funding commitment over its first decade of operation, the goal of CMMI is to test innovative payment and service delivery models to...