Many organizations are using measurement as a means to improve their software development and maintenance processes. A reasonable consensus has been reached about the main success factors for measurement programs. However, no comprehensive approach has so far been published for the processes that need to be in place to ensure effective and efficient measurement. We propose a capability maturity...

Our experience in the process control business started consciously in 1990 and probably unconsciously before. When we started, the CMM model from the Software Engineering Institute was available to the public and we used it as the basis for development of a methodology for software measurementl. In late 1993, we noticed some interest among our customers in Europe for process improvement; analys...

March 1998 Moving from “What” to “How” Although the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) provides a powerful improvement framework, its focus is necessarily on “what” organizations should do and not “how” they should do it. This is a direct result of the CMM’s original motivation to support the Department of Defense acquisition community. We knew management should set goals for their software work b...

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

The aim of this paper is to explore and evaluate the role that can be played by Usability Maturity Models (UMMs) in integrating agile processes and User Centred Design (UCD). UMMs can be utilised in Agile projects as a diagnostic tool to assess the extent to which UCD is systematically and consistently implemented and the extent of effective implementation of UCD in development projects. This p...

Özet. Günümüz Savunma Sanayi yazılım projeleri uzun takvimlerde, uluslararası standartlara uygun ve kısıtlı kaynaklar kullanılarak gerçekleştirilmektedir. Genellikle Savunma Sanayi projeleri geliştirilirken kontratsal olarak Şelale modeli uygulanmasına karar verilmektedir. Ancak Şelale modeli izlemek, projenin son safhasında yapılan değişikliklerin pahalıya mal olması, risklerin zamanında öngör...

Maintaining and supporting the software of an organization is not an easy task, and software maintainers do not currently have access to tools to evaluate strategies for improving the specific activities of software maintenance. This article presents a knowledge-based system which helps in locating best practices in a software maintenance capability maturity model (S). The contributions of this...

From my previous field research, I found that most of the organizations have very poor security practices. Some organizations may be aware of the consequences of information security breaches, but would rather take the risk. Some are not knowledgeable enough and partly because they have very limited resources to allocate in areas that return no benefits. Some of them may think that their busine...

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

Over the last few years the Software Engineering Institute has participated in several workshops and site visits with maturity level 4 and 5 software organizations. This paper summarizes the lessons learned from those interactions with high maturity organizations, while preserving the anonymity of the organizations involved. Specific areas of interest include statistical process and quality con...