1 An Assessment for IT Project Maturity Levels; Bersam Bolat, Management Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey Aslı Kuşdemir, Management Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey İpek Ceren Uslu, Management Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey Gül Tekin Temur, Faculty of Engineering and Architectu...

The particular characteristics associated with qualitative longitudinal research in the disciplines of psychology and social science have prompted the development of informed consent. There are analogies between these characteristics and the collection and analysis of data in online settings. How and why informed consent has developed in qualitative longitudinal research, both theoretically and...

An increase in demand for software services has led to development of software from different dispersed locations. This has brought in complexities to managing software projects. This research work focuses on the development of a process maturity model that balances different perspectives in one organization that is carrying out software sustenance work from geographically dispersed locations.

Over the last 10 years CMM has achieved widespread use as a model for improving software organisations. Often CMM is used to standardise software processes across projects. In this paper we discuss this standardisation of SPI in relation to innovation, organisational size and company growth. Our discussion is empirically based on years work and experience working with companies on SPI. In the c...