The Data Management Association (DAMA) published body of knowledge framework defines the responsibility of IT professionals across the development life-cycle with respect to the domain of information engineering. Yet, it is not information that is power, it is applied information. The Capability Maturity Model (CMMI) of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) promotes not only managing a proje...

This paper provides an overview of the latest version of the Capability Maturity Model for Software, CMM v1.1. Based on over six years of experience with software process improvement and the contributions of hundreds of reviewers, CMM v1.1 describes the software engineering and management practices that characterize organizations as they mature their processes for developing and maintaining sof...

A detailed literature review revealed that, most of the organizations develop their projects and associated software engineering activities using in-house established methods. There are discrete references in the literature on application of broad based scientific methods in designing and developing process capability and maturity models by software organizations. Documentation and extent of ad...

This chapter provides an overview of the Capability Maturity Model for Software (CMM VI.1). CMM Vl. l describes the software engineering and management practices that characterize organizations as their processes for developing and maintaining software mature. This chapter stresses the need for a process maturity framework to prioritize improvement actions; describes the five maturity levels, k...

There has been an increase in the importance of software Security, Trust, and Privacy (STP). Product systems must be designed with trustworthy STP protection methods while still rendering required benefits applications to its consumers. As a result this large skill gap, colleges sector have found themselves state supply- and-demand conflict. STP-aware development requires new practice Capabilit...

OVERVIEW OF THE READINESS & FIT ANALYSIS All software engineering and management practices are based on cultural and social assumptions. When adopting new practices, leaders often find mismatches between those assumptions and the realities within their organizations. The SEI has an analysis method called Readiness & Fit Analysis (RFA) that allows the profiling of a set of practices to understan...

During the last years, agile methods like eXtreme Programming have become increasingly popular. Parallel to this, more and more organizations rely on process maturity models to assess and improve their own processes or those of suppliers, since it has been getting clear that most project failures can be imputed to inconsistent, undisciplined processes. Many organizations demand CMMI compliance ...

Software Process Improvement (SPI) ‘best practice’ models such as ISO 9000 and the Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI) have been developed to assist software development organisations by harnessing their experience and providing them with support so that they can produce software products on time, within budget and to a high level of quality. However there is increasing evidence that th...

We propose a maturity model for computing education which is inspired by the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) used in software engineering. Similar to CMM, the Computing Education Maturity Model (CEMM) can be used to rate educational organisations according to their capability to deliver highquality education on a five level scale. Furthermore, CEMM can be used in order to improve an institution...

Business-IT alignment is pervasive today, as organizations strive to achieve competitive advantage. Like in other areas, e.g., software development, maintenance and IT services, there are maturity models to assess such alignment. Those models, however, do not specifically address the aspects needed for achieving alignment between business and IT in inter-enterprise settings. In this paper, we p...