The Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) is a renowned Software Process Improvement (SPI) framework. Research studies have revealed that CMMI adoption needs lot of resources in terms training, funds, and professional workers. However, the software SMEs (SSMEs) few cannot adopt CMMI. One challenges adopting tells “What to do?” as requirements be met, leaves “How implementers. industry es...

The recent release of CMMI V1.3 incorporates a number of changes to the model and framework; one of the more interesting is the decision to do away with Capability Levels 4 and 5 in the Continuous Representation, while retaining the high levels of Organizational Maturity. This paper examines some of the issues that may have driven this decision, and explores the opportunity provided for greater...

Many of quality approaches are described in hundreds of textual pages (see CMMI, SPICE, Enterprise SPICE, ITIL among others). Manual processing of information consumes plenty of resources. In this report we present a text mining approach applied on CMMI – one well known and widely known quality approach. The text mining analysis can provide a quick overview on the scope of a quality approaches....

the requirements management and development are very important parts and activities in the software development life cycle, and the “Agile” is one of the most common and widely used software life cycle models. But applying agile methodology most probably shows that, it contains some problems related to requirements management and development. This paper suggests a new software development life ...

Software development organizations are increasingly interested in the possibility of adopting agile development methods. Organizations that have been employing the Capability Maturity Model (CMM/CMMI) for making improvements are now changing their software development processes towards agility. By deploying agile methods, these organizations are making an investment the success of which needs t...

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...

In this article we analize the agile method Scrum in relation to the process areas Requirements Management and Requirements Development of the CMMI model. The results obtained from this analysis indicate that Scrum does not meet all the required practices present in such process areas. We point out what is missing in Scrum to fully comply with these areas and propose solutions for it. Resumo: E...

In Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI), Lead Appraiser (LA) evaluates the processes of one company according to qualitative sources such as instrument, interview and document through direct artifacts, indirect artifacts and affirmation. Due to the subjective measurement and non-quantitative expression of LAs, this paper proposes a fuzzy quantitative integrated metric model (FQIMM) that ...