Software process improvement is the key issue of the software development technology at present, especially for small Organizations. According to small organizations' characteristic, the paper introduces the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), Personal Software Process (PSP) and Team Software Process (TSP), and shows the supplementary relationship among them and software process impro...

Our research activities are focused on formal specification based product and process quality improvement of a software system. We start with a formal specification based pragmatic view on software specification, software refinement, software enhancement and software testing. These features are further explored for the improvement of product and process quality. On the basis of these features w...

Viele agile Reifegradmodelle konzentrieren sich stark auf die Bewertung und agilen Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten von Teams und teilweise von Abteilungen. Das bedeutet, dass die Konzentration der Modelle auf Projektarbeit und nur in wenigen Fällen auf Linientätigkeiten liegt. Dabei handelt es sich dann oft um technische Bereiche und Abteilungen. Das in diesem Beitrag vorgestellte Reifegradmodell hat...

“ Capability Maturity Model and CMM are registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. SM Capability Maturity Model Integration, CMMI, IDEAL, Personal Software Process, PSP, Team Software Process, and TSP are service marks of Carnegie Mellon University. The Software Engineering Institute is a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense. 200...

May 1999 Continuous process improvement is based on many small, evolutionary steps rather than revolutionary innovations. The Capability Maturity Model (CMM) provides a framework for organizing these evolutionary steps into five maturity levels that lay successive foundations for continuous process improvement. These five maturity levels define an ordinal scale for measuring the maturity of an ...

0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 0 2 / $ 1 7 . 0 0 © 2 0 0 2 I E E E ISO 9000, the Capability Maturity Model,1,2 Spice (Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination, also known as ISO/IEC 15504), and Bootstrap to promote mature software development practices. The CMM has been supplemented with the Ideal improvement model, the Personal Software Process, and Team CMM. Most of these frameworks have ...

Process improvements have drawn much attention in practical software engineering. The capability maturity levels from CMMI have become an important index to assess a software company’s software engineering capability. However, in countries like Taiwan, customers often have no choices but to deal with vendors that are not CMMI prepared or qualified. We call these vendors maturitylevel-1 (ML1) ve...

Most of the software development organizations all over the world are Small Software Development Firms (SSDFs). These firms have realized that it is necessary to organize and improve their software development and management activities. Traditional software process improvement (SPI) models and standards are generally not possible to be implemented directly by SSDFs, as these firms are not capab...

This work has the purpose of describing a software development process with the following characteristics: its scope lies within the requirements engineering activities; it fulfills CMMI requisites for Requirements Management and Requirements Development process areas (maturity level 2 and 3, respectively); it is based on RUP practices and activities where possible practices of agile methods ar...

The software maintenance function suffers from a scarcity of management models that would facilitate its evaluation, management and continuous improvement. This paper presents a revised version of a maintenance-specific evaluation model: Software Maintenance Capability Maturity Model (SM). This model adopts a similar structure and should be used as a complement to the CMMi© (Capability Maturity...