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...

This paper is based on the application of the People Capability Maturity Model (CMM) to the Foundation Bruno Kessler (FBK), a research centre located in Trento (Italy). People CMM is a framework to study the level of maturity of an organization in order to improve workforce's development and to help management to define people's capabilities in the organization. The project is an ongoing projec...

This chapter presents the Capability Maturity Model Fast-track Toolkit (CMMFT) programme which aims to provide a faster and cheaper method of obtaining Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) capability with the end goals of increasing quality of software products and gaining competitive advantage as software development practices are recognised internationally. The programme is specifical...

in a rapidly changing environment, turbulent, unpredictable and full of uncertainty, organizations should have a productive, creative and continuous learning capability and potential in order to survive, grow, and accomplish goals in order to create superior value for all their stakeholders, especially customers. such a learning capability of organization and its continuous development depends ...

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 reports on the design and development of a Measurement Metamodel to facilitate the Implementation and Monitoring of Software Improvement initiatives. The Indicators provided for the Measurement Metamodel are building on a Data Warehouse environment. The Measurement Metamodel is designed based on the International Standard ISO 15939 – Software Measurement Process [1]. The Measurement ...

today, in the rangeland management science and determination of rangecapacity, accurate and true information about range production is crucial. in fact, rangeproduction is considered as a basis for range management. the aim of this study was tocompare different methods for the estimation of forage production with four samplingmethods in the rangelands of kurdistan province, iran. the sampling m...

Leading market analysts such as Gartner, Forrester Research and IDC expect again for 2012 an increase of global information technology (IT) spending between 3.7% and 6.9% compared to 2011. This trend emphasises the fact that ensuring the effectiveness and efficiency of IT or IT evaluation is a substantial task of strategic IT management. Weighing costs and benefits is already a real challenge f...

every firm learns through firm specific methods. this learning process is operationalized by firm’s knowledge management practices. therefore, knowledge to result in successful learning should be assisted by a combinative framework which can enhance a firms’ absorptive capability. this in turn will play a decisive role for achieving competitive advantage. current literature in strategic managem...