Reference models usually serve as starting points for developing company specific models. Unfortunately, successful usage of reference models is often impeded by various aspects, such as a lack of acceptance among employees, incorrect model implementation, or high project costs all of which more often than not are resulting from an imbalance between the model's complexity and the complexity of ...

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This research addresses issues relating to the implementation of software process improvement (SPI) initiatives. A number of advances have been made in the development of software process improvement (SPI) standards and models, e.g. Capability Maturity Model (CMM), more recently CMMI, and ISO's SPICE. However, these advances have not been matched by equal advances in the adoption of these stand...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) developed an integrated Capability Maturity Model (CMM), known as the FAA-iCMM, that integrates the Systems Engineering CMM, the Software Acquisition CMM and the CMM for Software. The FAA-iCMM was released in 1997 and is the first major integrated CMM in existence. Since 1997, it has been successfully guiding the systematic improvement of FAA-wide proce...

This paper includes a causal-based modelling of software process models in order to analyse the correct relationships between the different (key) process areas of these models. A first short description of causal network approaches shows the identified problems and possible benefits using these formal techniques in the software engineering area. The definition and extension of the causal modell...

It is the position of this author that attention to both process and people is a key to rapidly adopting new technology essential to improving software quality, reducing costs, and shortening cycle time. In order to succeed, corporations are realizing the importance of meeting these challenges: . the tension between discipline/bureaucracy and creativity/chaos must be creatively managed . “agili...

concern to both practitioners and researchers but also that the software market is becoming gradually more demanding in terms of development constraints, systems evolution and emerging business models. To cope with this reality, the adoption of Software Process Improvement Models such as capability maturity model integration (CMMI) is perceived by many software development organisations as a ba...

Requirements management measures help organizations to understand, control and assess requirements management process. This paper validates empirically a set of requirements management measures. The measures were defined for the five specific practices of requirement’s management key process area in capability maturity model integration by applying the goal question metrics paradigm to the five...

El modelado de procesos de negocio es la actividad de representar el estado actual (as is, como es) y el estado futuro (to be, como será) de los procesos de una empresa para su comparación y contraste, de tal forma que permitan el análisis y mejoramiento para llegar a la situación deseada. Los modelos son construidos por analistas de negocio y administradores [1]. Históricamente, el aporte acad...