In the rapid technological innovation and changes era, the key to the survival company is the continuous improvement of its process. In this paper, we introduce Software Process Improvement (SPI) and Quality Function Deployment (QFD); and for combining also the staged model and the continuous model in CMMI, the Software Process Improvement framework with CMMI has two parts: 1) Software Process ...

Organizations adopt software process improvement (SPI) frameworks for developing higher-quality software more efficiently. CMMI is one of the most widely used SPI frameworks; however, software tools that provide a higher automation level are required. In this paper, the QRP platform, which guides and evaluates conformance to a CMMI level, is presented. The main innovation provided by the platfo...

In this paper we propose Constrained Maximum Mutual Information dimensionality reduction (CMMI), an informationtheoretic based dimensionality reduction technique. CMMI tries to maximize the mutual information between the class labels and the projected (lower dimensional) features, optimized via gradient ascent. Supervised and semi-supervised CMMI are introduced and compared with a state of the ...

It is possible to combine Agile and Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI), but few organizations are doing this in practice. There are many challenges to be overcome, not the least of which is the very different mindsets of adherents of each approach. More importantly, we have a better option available to us in the form of the Disciplined Agile (DA) Framework. The DA process decision fram...

A large IT company is creating a generic architecting process. Since the company has set an objective to achieve Maturity Level 3 of the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), the process needs to comply with the relevant requirements set by the CMMI. This paper presents the elicitation of such requirements, and the resulting set of requirements. It analyzes their potential impact on gen...

CMMI has been adopted advantageously in large companies for improvements in software quality, budget fulfilling, and customer satisfaction. However SPI strategies based on CMMI-DEV require heavy software development processes and large investments in terms of cost and time that medium/small companies do not deal with. The so-called light software development processes, such as Agile Software De...

iv 1 Problem Definition 1 2 Origins from Two Extremes 3 2.1 The Origins of Agile Methods 3 2.2 The Origins of CMMI 5 3 Factors that Affect Perception 7 3.1 Misuse 7 3.2 Lack of Accurate Information 8 3.3 Terminology Difficulties 9 4 The Truth About CMMI 11 4.1 CMMI Is a Model, Not a Process Standard 11 4.2 Process Areas, Not Processes 13 4.3 SCAMPI Appraisals 14 5 The Truth About Agile 16 6 The...

Many web development models had been proposed in the literature and there are few studies related to proposing models for developing large web applications. It is important to construct a model that lead to large web applications development with minimum likelihood of failure. A Hybrid web engineering process model for large web development enterprises has been proposed in this research. This m...

The article explores the link between agile methods and CMMI-SW structure to find out how agile methods fit into CMMI. Agile (light) methods have been successfully used for developing internet-based applications, while CMMISW has been used for large outsourced projects. We are hoping that this paper will assist CMMI-SW certified IT Department to utilize CMMI-type (heavy/called elephant sometime...

Software Process Improvement is a long-standing approach which is developed by software researchers to support organizations on improving software quality and reducing risk. There are variously designed software process improvement standards and models such as Capability Maturity Model (CMM), and more recently Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI). CMMI is shortly a model to support proc...