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...

A software industry has been more concerned about Software Process Improvement (SPI). Numerous studies have been made in development of SPI standards and models, or to identify factors that affect SPI success. However, these studies did not provide answers to questions about the effect of Geographical Region on the transition time between Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) levels. And...

Agile approaches formally appeared ten years ago and nowadays are a valid alternative for organizations developing software. Agile methodologies are especially interesting to those developing Web environments applications, as they can fit properly the special characteristics of this type of developments. In addition, maturity models like CMMI-DEV (Capability Maturity Model Integration for Devel...

The management of IT carve-out projects is very challenging due to the strict time frame, the severe contractual penalties, the huge number of stakeholders and the various as well as unique IT tasks that have to be conducted. Up to now, there is no instrument for evaluating the readiness of the IT for a carve-out and also not for managing such a project. In order to address this, we develop a m...

Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) is a set of practices that can be applied in companies in order to improve processes. The goal of this work was to understand the barriers in implementing CMMI and improve processes following the model. The study was conducted in a company in the North of Portugal, following three steps: (1) diagnosing the company (2) opinion gathering through questi...

The Software Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) has become a popular Software Process Improvement (SPI) model for enhancing software development processes with the goal of developing high-quality software within budget and schedule. Since Software development effort can be greatly affected by the organizational process maturity level, this study examines the impact of different CMMI-b...

The relationship between agile methods and Software Engineering Institute’s CMM approach is often debated. Some authors argue that the approaches are compatible, while others have criticized the application of agile methods from the CMM perspective. Only few CMM based assessments have been performed on projects using agile approaches. This paper explores an empirical case where a project using ...

It is difficult to improve software quality by relying on conformance to industry standards by continuously upgrading from one standard or model to another standard or model because this exercise is complicated for some software organizations. ‘Many multinational companies, developed internal standards based on the military standards, and then sought to improve the standard even further as thei...

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...

n many companies, the Capability Maturity Model1 plays a major role in defining software process improvement. Frequently, organizations contemplating software process improvement (SPI) seek assurances that tangible benefits will result from such activities. Pockets of data across industry2 show that CMM-based process improvement is making a difference in those organizations committed to improve...