T his article focuses on applying technology adoption concepts in moving toward using the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) Capability Maturity Model ® (CMM ®) Integration SM (CMMI SM) framework. It is assumed that the reader has a basic understanding of the CMMI concepts and the project that formulated it. If not, please see the CMMI area within the SEI's Web site at . F...

Although a classic staged maturity framework with 5 levels was introduced by W. S. Humphrey back in 1988, its basic ideas remain essentially unchanged and they are still employed in CMMI and other maturity models. ISO/IEC 15504, formerly known as SPICE, has promoted a continuous model for process capability assessment. Not long ago SPICE community recognized the benefits of a staged representat...

Project monitoring and control process is an important process in developing any computer information system. Monitoring and Control provides an understanding of the project’s progress so that when the project deviates significantly from the plan appropriate corrective actions can be taken. This research will identify general measures for the specific goals and its specific practices of Project...

Software Process Improvement (SPI) is the modification of current software process methods in many software development organizations. It is the key of the continuous process improvement. In this paper, we introduce Software Process Improvement (SPI) and Quality Function Deployment (QFD); the SPI framework based on CMMI contains two portions: 1) SPI framework for CMMI staged model based on QFD ...

ISO 9001 is a standard for quality management systems and CMMI is a model for process improvement. If an ISO-certified organization wishes to improve its processes continuously, implementing CMMI would be a good choice, as it provides more detailed practices for process improvement than the ISO standards. However, there are two issues that need to be resolved when an ISO-certified organization ...

ISO 9001 Quality Management System (QMS) and Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) are quality management technologies, which can be applied to the software industry. This paper adopts these two management technologies to improve software process quality. ISO 9001 stresses the importance of building a QMS complying with the ISO guidelines of documation. CMMI stresses the importance of bu...

CMMI and ISO/IEC 15504 are two main models for software process assessment and improvement. Both models have staged and continuous representations but these are different. Continuous representations of the models propose the different sets of processes (process areas). The differences of staged representations are even more essential. CMMI staged representation is based on the ideas of a classi...

• High competition in software industry • Focusing on product quality and process improvement – Adopt CMMI Model – To obtain CMMI certified is not easy and it is costly • Gap analysis is an important step for an organization to perform CMMI Maturity level assessment Ph.D. 4 ICSP2008 • Problems found in Gap analysis process [6]: – time-consuming – many document reviews – meetings and interviews ...

During the last decade, software engineering researchers have tried to identify the success and obstacle factors to the software development. Conclusions from many of the researches related to the issue show that software process is one of the most important subjects contributing into the success or failure to the software development. Among the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), the...

One of the most commonly used agile methods is Scrum. Capability Maturity Model Integration for Development (CMMI-DEV) is currently the de facto framework for process improvement and for determining the organizational maturity of software development companies. CMMI-DEV and Scrum share certain characteristics, and even though they were developed for different purposes, they can be complementary...