Maturity models are widely used in process improvement. The users of a maturity model should be confident that the weak points of the assessed processes can be found and that the most valuable changes are introduced. Therefore, the evaluation of maturity models is an important activity. In this paper, a mapping study of the literature on the evaluation of maturity models is presented. Two datab...

in current dynamic and often turbulent work environment, information technology becomes an effective competitive advantage that organizations largely rely on it. due to this affiliation, the importance of integrity and accommodation between the information technology strategies and business strategies in organizations has been increased. this alliance is the initial aim of the governance of inf...

Process improvement is a challenging task for software engineering. As Kuvaja [7]. has stated it:” It is difficult to find a unique way to identify a common improvement path suitable to all kinds of organizations.” The BOOTSTRAP method gives an assessor tools to evaluate processes. As a method it evaluates processes with low capability and a high effect on an organization’s goals the most impor...

Since the Software Engineering Institute has launched the Capability Maturity Model almost twenty years ago, hundreds of maturity models have been proposed by researchers and practitioners across multiple application domains. With process orientation being a central paradigm of organizational design and continuous process improvement taking top positions on CIO agendas, maturity models are also...

The SOA Innovation Lab investigates the use of standard software packages in a service-oriented context. As a part of this investigation the SOA capabilities of products from different vendors need to be evaluated. For this purpose a SOA architecture maturity framework has been developed, leveraging and extending CMMI and TOGAF, as well as other state-of-the art frameworks and methods. Besides ...

CMMI and ISO/IEC 15504 are two main models for software process assessment and improvement. Both models have staged and continuous representations but these are different. Continuous representations of the models propose the different sets of processes (process areas). The differences of staged representations are even more essential. CMMI staged representation is based on the ideas of a classi...

A maturity environment is presented, aiming to support software engineering education. This environment is part of a processes framework being developed in the Software Technology Laboratory (LTS) of the Department of Computer Engineering of Escola Politécnica of University of São Paulo, Brazil. The framework is a three-level model with Reference Model, Maturity Environment and Real Environment...

Purpose – Maturity models are a prospering approach to improving a company’s processes and business process management (BPM) capabilities. In fact, the number of corresponding maturity models is such high that practitioners and scholars run the risk of losing track. We therefore provide a systematic in-depth review of BPM maturity models. Design/methodology/approach – The paper follows the acce...