Index of Tables and Figures Figure Source Figure 1 – p. 4 Structure of CMM Paulk, Mark C., et al. The Capability Maturity Model: A Tutorial. A set of slides from SEI describing CMM and the underlying structure.

Most often the efforts to leverage organizational competencies are directed towards use of data and technology, overlooking the human and organizational structural capital parts of knowledge within the organization. This paper adopts a holistic approach to understanding and realizing the value within the human, data and processual capital in the organization via the Intellectual Bandwidth (IB) ...

Such statements evidence that security should indeed be a first-class consideration of the software ecosystem. In this position paper, we share some thoughts related to research software security. Our thoughts are based on the observation that security is not a binary, all-or-nothing attribute, but a range of practices and requirements depending on how the software is expected to be deployed an...

Software Process Improvement efforts rely heavily on the use of software capability maturity models. These models are used to identify problems in an organization’s software processes and point to, and prioritize, necessary improvements. Using models for this purpose will, however, automatically turn our attention to certain problems and issues and ignore others. In this paper we argue that the...

Knowledge is a valuable corporate asset and must be properly managed. No generally accepted methodology exists for assessing the maturity of an organization with respect to the management of its knowledge resources. This paper develops and tests an instrument that organizations can use to self-assess their knowledge management maturity (KMM). Five levels of maturity are defined. These levels ar...

In this paper, we present a process for linking organizational training efforts with defects causal analysis in software development organizations. The process is being implemented in a CMMI maturity level 3 organization. Since causal analysis is not an expected process area at maturity level three, key success factors for the implementation of the process are identified and analyzed. The concl...

The focus of this paper is to outline the experience of a European based software organization utilizing the IDEAL model, while implementing a tailored Capability Maturity Model (CMM) software process improvement program. The goal was to achieve process improvement rather than a specific CMM maturity level. In doing this, the IDEAL model was extensively researched and employed. The benefits and...

Situational method engineering is used to create methods for use on projects. It is vital that such constructed methods be of good quality and relevant to the software development project in hand. Current capability assessment approaches cannot readily be applied to such SME-constructed methods since they do not differentiate between the three “phases” of method construction and enactment: meth...