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 ...

In this article, we present a categorization of CMMI Specific Practices, and use this to reanalyze prior work describing the perceived value of those practices for Small-to-Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), in order to better understand the software engineering practice needs of SMEs. Our categorization is based not on process areas, but on outcome areas (covering organizational, process, projec...

The relationship between agile methods and Software Engineering Institute’s CMM approach is often debated. Some authors argue that the approaches are compatible, while others have criticized the application of agile methods from the CMM perspective. Only few CMM based assessments have been performed on projects using agile approaches. This paper explores an empirical case where a project using ...

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Since the release of Building Systems from Commercial Components [Wallnau 01] in July of 2001, the design and engineering team from the SEI COTS-Based Systems Initiative has developed the collection of techniques described in that book into a more prescriptive COTS-based systems design process. This evolution has been partially described in this column and other forums and will soon be offered ...

In den letzten Jahren wurden agile Methoden wie eXtreme Programming zunehmend populär. Parallel dazu stützen sich mehr und mehr Unternehmen auf Reifegradmodelle, um ihre eigenen Prozesse oder die der Zulieferer zu analysieren und zu verbessern, nachdem sich immer mehr die Ansicht durchsetzt, dass viele Projektmisserfolge undisziplinierten, inkonsistenten Prozessen zugeschrieben werden können. I...

In December 2001 the SEI CMMI Product Team released version 1.1 of the Capability Maturity Model Integrated for Systems Engineering and Software Engineering (CMMI-SE/SW 1.1). After several years of preparation the CMMI replaced both the CMM version 1.1 of 1993 (SW-CMM) and the systems engineering standard EIA 731. According to the SEI survey data, several hundred organisations from all over the...