Empirical studies are important in software engineering to evaluate new tools, techniques, methods and technologies in a structured way before they are introduced in the industrial (real) software process. Within this PhD thesis we will develop a framework of a consistent process for involving students as subjects of empirical studies of software engineering. In concrete, our experiences with s...

Today it is crucial for organizations to pay even greater attention on quality management as the importance of this function in achieving ultimate business objectives is increasingly becoming clearer. Importance of the Quality Management (QM) Function in achieving basic need by ensuring compliance with Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI) / International Organization for Standardization ...

This paper presents the cognizant enterprise maturity model (CEMM). The model provides tripartite usage of calibration, capability assessment, and maturity advancement. The entry point is an organizational and departmental profiler that provides relevance measures based on fuzzy multicriteria group decision-making (FMCGDM) capabilities to key maturity areas (KMAs) identified for the five-level ...

Even after a wide variety of tools, technologies, and management methods are poured into information systems (IS) development, IS projects are still plagued by unmet user’s requirements, schedules, and budgets. Many researchers and practitioners have argued inadequate software development process planning is a critical factor accounting for this high IS project failure rates. The Capability Mat...

a vast number of organizational projects as well as complexity of decision making process can cause particular challenges for project management and its leadership. in order to use organization assets and opportunities efficiently, it is necessary that manager implement a comprehensive multidimensional project portfolio management system that considers economic, social and technical details of ...

In the past few years, many Information Technology (IT) departments have been vastly expanded or created, and new processes have come into existence. With these increasing numbers of elements, organizations face the challenge of process integration. They must seek to integrate what are often rapidly changing sets of procedures to make processes work synergistically and maximize the return from ...

Objective: In this paper, we present findings from an empirical study that was aimed at identifying the relative ‘‘perceived value” of CMMI level 2 specific practices based on the perceptions and experiences of practitioners of small and medium size companies. The objective of this study is to identify the extent to which a particular CMMI practice is used in order to develop a finer-grained fr...

This paper outlines the development of a Configuration Management model for the MEDical device software industry (CMMED). The paper details how medical device regulations associated with Configuration Management (CM) may be satisfied by adopting less than half of the practices from the CM process area of the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI). It also investigates how the CMMI CM proc...

The product lifecycle management (PLM) system has a significant role to support the collaboration and manage the partnership between OEM and Supplier to enable the success of supplier integration. Today great rates of cooperation as suppliers have been dedicated to SMEs. Since one of the PLM task is to control the collaboration between OEM and suppliers, this paper provide supplier (SMEs) a fra...

The Capability Maturity Model for Software (Software CMM ) is probably the best known and most widely used model world-wide for software process improvement. ISO/IEC 15504 is a suite of standards currently under development for software process assessment, which can be expected to affect the continuing evolution of the Software CMM. This paper discusses the similarities and differences between...