Route to Cmmi in Turkish Software Companies

Software Process Improvement is a long-standing approach which is developed by software researchers to support organizations on improving software quality and reducing risk. There are variously designed software process improvement standards and models such as Capability Maturity Model (CMM), and more recently Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI). CMMI is shortly a model to support process improvement which is accomodated multiple disciplines such as software engineering, system engineering, integrated product and process development, supply sourcing to give the benefits of an integrated model. CMMI is used to assign existing resources to the best advantages which is also adopted all over the world including South America, North America, Africa, Europe, Asian and Australia. Precisely, CMMI improvements are completed by big-scaled companies in Turkey yet most of them achieved to the third level. In this paper, according to the previous studies and experiences related with the CMMI model, a survey is prepared and experimented by the software development experts selected from eight different Turkish software companies to find out the perception and the motivation for the CMMI in Turkey. The outcome of the survey is positive on CMMI despite its expensive service costs and time constraints.