• High competition in software industry • Focusing on product quality and process improvement – Adopt CMMI Model – To obtain CMMI certified is not easy and it is costly • Gap analysis is an important step for an organization to perform CMMI Maturity level assessment Ph.D. 4 ICSP2008 • Problems found in Gap analysis process [6]: – time-consuming – many document reviews – meetings and interviews ...

Many books and articles have been written about the importance of business process management. However, in practice, improving business processes remains challenging. Therefore, business process maturity models (BPMMs) have been developed to assist organizations in their search for business process excellence (e.g. CMMI or OMG-BPMM). However, given their importance, a BPMM proliferation exists ...

Aiming to help small-to-medium software developers lift their game, the Victorian Government is providing $1 million over the next 3.5 years for obtaining Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 2. While applauding the good intentions (and of course the funding), I have personal reservations about how this is being carried out. To be blunt, I think it is a big mistake to push CMMI ce...

In recent years, some software organizations have been successful at improving their maturity level, thanks to the successful application of methods and techniques which help them to achieve better performance and more consistent production processes. Models such as the Sw-CMM (and its evolutions and derived models) have provided roadmaps to process improvements. Creativity and innovation have ...

This article presents an industrial experience using the recent ISO/IEC 15504-7 Organizational Maturity Levels 1, 2 and 3 for an assessment. In this experience, these organizational maturity levels were defined for the continuous representation of the CMMI-DEV model. The assessment was an exploratory assessment for a process improvement cycle using PRO2PIWORK4A method. The assessment results ar...

Currently, the software Industry represents a very important economic activity for many countries and Colombia is among those countries, since it offers a great opportunity with multiple business sources. On the other hand, the software industry is incipient and immature (1) in Latin America, resulting in the lack of competitiveness which makes quality growth so difficult. In spite of this comp...

ment programs, such as those based on the eSourcing Capability Model for Service Providers (eSCM-SP) and Capability Maturity Model Integration for Development (CMMIDEV), rely on a sample of engagements (or projects) in drawing conclusions about organizational capability. The intent is to determine the normal behavior in the organization based on a “representative” sample, but a rigorous definit...

E-government is a field where oriented practice is considered crucial for its prosperity. Therefore, best practices are considered among the success factors of e-government portals. To this end, e-government maturity models can be used to provide guidance and guidelines to identify those best practices. After an extensive literature review, we have collected both; the e-government portals’ best...

the aim of the current study was examine the effectiveness of  cognitive behavioral therapy on affective maturity and happiness in psychology student of azad university of bojnoutd.40 person were selecting by employing simple random sampling . they completed effective maturity scale (ems) for assessment of effective maturity and oxford happiness questionnaire for the assessment of happiness. an...

Information technology plays a significant role in the accounting industry. Accounting practitioners, therefore, are expected to possess necessary IT competencies to execute the day to day activities. However, IT competencies as always been viewed as a uni-dimensional construct, where focus in on imparting technical knowledge. There is a different between the ability to operate IT and IT compet...