Software Process Improvement (SPI) has become the key to the survival of many software development organizations. As a follow-up of a previous paper on SPI for the CMM using Quality Function Deployment (QFD), a new SPI framework integrating QFD with the CMMI is developed. Similar to the earlier SPI framework for the CMM, the proposed SPI framework based on the CMMI using QFD aims to achieve thr...

Software development organizations are increasingly interested in the possibility of adopting agile development methods. Organizations that have been employing the Capability Maturity Model (CMM/CMMI) for making improvements are now changing their software development processes towards agility. By deploying agile methods, these organizations are making an investment the success of which needs t...

In many organisations a gap exists between IT management and emergency managemement. This paper illustrates how process improvement based on a maturity model can be used to help organisations to evaluate and improve the way they include IT dependability information in their emergency management. This paper presents the IDEM3 (IT Dependability in Emergency Management Maturity Model) process impr...

The purpose of this article is to exhibit metrics and models for estimating return on investment (ROI) of software process improvement (SPI). Additionally, this article is designed to show software managers and engineers: 1) how to estimate ROI early, quickly, and accurately, 2) how to maximize ROI using total life cycle costs, and 3) how to estimate ROI for Inspections, Personal Software Proce...

Despite the highlighting on e-learning, it was obvious that models for successful deployment have not yet been recognized. Even with the huge quantities of money being spent, it is not clear that any enhancement in student learning outcomes has been recognized. To address this issue, this qualitative research aimed to explore and understand dimensions of E-learning Maturity Model (ELMM). An ind...

This paper evaluates proposed models for assessing Smart Grid interoperability and other models referenced as instructive for this effort. This paper suggests dividing the GWAC IMM into a Smart Grid Interoperability Maturity Model (SGIMM) and a Smart Grid Interoperability CAPABILITY Maturity Model (SGICMM). We propose a specific Smart Grid Interoperability Assessment model and rating system fra...

The present article discusses and presents a new and comprehensive approachaimed at measuring the maturity and quality of software processes. This method has beendesigned on the basis of the Software Capability Maturity Model (SW-CMM) and theMulti-level Fuzzy Inference Model and is used as a measurement and analysis tool. Among themost important characteristics of this method one can mention si...

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The software testing state of practice is not as good as it ought to be. To reduce the gap between the state of practice and the state of the art, improvement of software testing is necessary. Existing improvement models focus too little on, or lack important aspects of, software testing. Therefore a new model is required. This paper describes a test improvement model called TIM. The model func...