This article presents an industrial experience using the recent ISO/IEC 15504-7 Organizational Maturity Levels 1, 2 and 3 for an assessment. In this experience, these organizational maturity levels were defined for the continuous representation of the CMMI-DEV model. The assessment was an exploratory assessment for a process improvement cycle using PRO2PIWORK4A method. The assessment results ar...

Metrics are beneficial to an organization that supports a product from inception through product retirement and disposal. Quality metrics have a critical role in this type of environment because they span both the development and operations and maintenance phases of the software life cycle, and there is a relationship between the internal quality metrics collected during development and the ext...

In Greek mythology, Procrustes was a rogue smith and bandit who invited travellers to rest in his “perfectly sized bed.” When they accepted, he forcibly bound them to it, then stretched them or cut off various body parts until they “perfectly” fit the bed. Too many organizations have a single model of high maturity to which they try to fit all their projects. Development and acquisition organiz...

This paper describes how a 500 person information systems (IS) organization within the Bluejay Company (a pseudonym) used the Software Engineering Institute’s (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM) as a foundation to develop IS organizational maturity. “Maturity” within a corporate IS organization is analyzed and four factors involved in the maturation process are identified. These factors are s...

Even after significant resources are poured into software development process, software development process maturity and productivity are still low. Organizational learning has long been realized as a key strategy for improving performance. In our research, we argued that organizational learning could affect the software development process maturity. Data collected via a survey of two groups th...

BACKGROUND A quality management system can provide a framework for continuous improvement in order to increase the probability of customers and other stakeholders' satisfaction. The test maturity model helps organizations to assess the degree of maturity in implementing effective and sustained quality management systems; plan based on the current realities of the organization and prioritize the...

introduction: today, many organizations attempt to fully develop in gradual evolution of their processes. pcmm is one of the models which focus on improving organizational human capabilities. this model is applied to continually increase people's ability to attract, develop, motivate, organize and retain the skills. in this study, pcmm was used to investigate organizational maturity needs in me...

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...