Software product line approaches produce reusable platforms and architectures for products set developed by specific companies. These approaches are strategic in nature requiring coordination, discipline, commonality and communication. The Capability Maturity Model (CMM) contains important guidelines for process improvement, and specifies "what" we must have into account to achieve the discipli...

In the recent past there has been a rapid increase in the use of process assessments in the software industry. Such assessments play an important role in initiating and tracking process improvements. In addition, there has been a proliferation of best practice models that are the basis for the assessments. The purpose of this chapter is to review the empirical evidence that exists to date on th...

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...

Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) hat in den letzten Jahren auch in Deutschland zunehmend an Bedeutung gewonnen. Firmen und Organisationen, die sich mit der Entwickung von Software-Systemen beschäftigen, wollen mit CMMI den Reifegrad ihres Softwareentwicklungsprozesses messen und bewerten können. Die Entwicklung des CMMI begann in den 1980er Jahren mit dem Vorläufer CMM (Cabability M...

Immature organisations need a simple development process before transitioning to a process based upon formalised frameworks (eg. SEI's Capability Maturity Model and ISO9000). This is because the use of formalised process frameworks require an in-depth understanding of process and quality issues and thus may impose considerable overhead in an immature organisation. We present in this paper a sof...

Software development organizations are adopting multiple improvement technologies to guide improvement efforts. A recent trend is the simultaneous adoption of CMMI and ISO models into a single environment originating multi-model process solutions. Some of these models address similar areas of concern and share similar quality goals. Reusing organizational implemented practices is an opportunity...

Metrics-programmes give powerful support to quality improvement of both software products and development processes. A well-known and popular software measurement approach is the Goal/Question/Metric method (GQM). This article presents a research road-map intended to enhance GQM. The main motive behind that presentation is that GQM will probably become the de-facto standard for software measure...

Majority of the software development companies are practicing agile methods to develop high quality products. SCRUM is one of the most widely used agile methods. Capability maturity model integration (CMMI) is one of the quality standards for software companies. In this research, we propose an implementation of risk management with SCRUM in order to make it compatible with CMMI. We conducted a ...

This paper proposes a research agenda and tool development methodology to support software code inspections. Recent research suggests promise and opportunity for a practical, people-oriented, and cognitively-based code inspection research approach. To provide theoretical and practical foundations, this paper identifies research assumptions, pitfalls, and potentials. The paper also proposes a th...