Agility Capability Maturity Framework

Systematizing Software Development Agility: Towards an Enterprise Capability Improvement Framework

Many new product development (NPD) based enterprises strive these days for even radical transformations in order to sustain and improve their competitiveness. Under current uncertain and turbulent circumstances in many competitive environments agility is often seen necessary and considered as a viable strategic choice. Agile characteristics can be attributed to a wide spectrum of organizational...

Capability Maturity

IntroductIon The dependence of any organization on knowledge management is clearly understood. Actually, we should distinguish between knowledge management (KM) and knowledge engineering (KE): KM is to define and support organizational structure, allocate personnel to tasks, and monitor knowledge engineering activities; KE is concerned with technical matters, such as tools for knowledge acquisi...

Open Source Software Capability Maturity Model: A Conceptual Framework

A knowledge management framework to grow innovation capability maturity

How to cite this article: Esterhuizen, D., Schutte, C. & Du Toit, A., 2012, ‘A knowledge management framework to grow innovation capability maturity’, SA Journal of Information Management 14(1), Art. #495, 10 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ sajim.v14i1.495 Background: Innovation is a key prerequisite for being organisationally competitive. Therefore, it is imperative that enterprises grow and...

Capability Maturity Mo

A bout the time Fred Brooks was warning us there was not likely to be a single, “silver bullet” solution to the essential difficulties of developing software [3], Watts Humphrey and others at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) were busy putting together the set of ideas that was to become the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) for Software. The CMM adopted the opposite of the quick-fix silve...