A software industry has been more concerned about Software Process Improvement (SPI). Numerous studies have been made in development of SPI standards and models, or to identify factors that affect SPI success. However, these studies did not provide answers to questions about the effect of Geographical Region on the transition time between Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) levels. And...

In the mid-1980s, the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research and Engineering (MITRE) Corporation began development of a process maturity framework to help organizations improve their software development and maintenance processes. Over the next several years, the framework evolved from a description of software process maturity (Humphrey and Swee...

This paper intends to investigate how corporations introduce and develop management information system (MIS ) and total quality management (TQM ) in facing the e-commerce era. Several 2009 national quality award winning firms will be used as individual cases for in-depth analysis. The development of a company’s MIS and TQM will be analyzed. In this study, we discover the development of MIS and ...

Agile practitioners pride themselves on highly productive, responsive, low ceremony, lightweight, tacit knowledge processes with little waste, adaptive planning and frequent iterative delivery of value. It is often assumed that CMMI compliant processes need to be heavyweight, bureaucratic, slow moving, high ceremony and plan driven. Agile developers often skeptically perceive formal process imp...

Software for international companies is often developed by a multiplicity of suppliers using different approaches and processes. Only a few of these suppliers are already rated according to CMMI, ISO 15504 or ISO 9001. Therefore Vodafone Global and sd&m have developed an approach to evaluate and to monitor the quality of suppliers’ development processes with selfassessments based on a detailed ...

The nature of distributed teams and the existence of multiple sites in offshore software development projects pose a challenging setting for software process improvement. Often, the improvement and appraisal of software processes is achieved through a turnkey solution where best practices are imposed or transferred from a company’s headquarters to its offshore units. In so doing, successful pro...

An essential decision that must be made by software organizations that adopt the continuous representation of the capability maturity model integration (CMMI) for software process improvement concerns a suitable path that best meets their business objectives and mitigates the organization’s risk. However, the CMMI models released by the Software Engineering Institute do not give their adopters ...

Organizations delivering offshore software development services have traditionally focused on CMMI framework to deliver quality software. With agile methodologies gaining more wide spread acceptance, such organizations cannot stay away from them. There are concerns about combining agile methodologies with offshoring. There are also concerns about mismatch of agile methodologies with CMMI framew...