Software product lines have received considerable adoption in the software industry and prove to be a very successful approach to intra-organizational software reuse. Existing literature, however, often presents only a single approach towards adopting and evolving a software product line. In this paper, we present an overview of different approaches to architecture-centric, intraorganizational ...

The value of information technology has been proved to be related to alignment between business and information systems (IS). However the constant report of failed IT projects suggests a misalignment between business and IS at the implementation stage. The majority of alignment assessment approaches focuses on the strategic level and overlooks the connections with IT projects. Although research...

The United States Air Force sponsored research to provide US industry with data on the positive, quantifiable benefits, or Return-on-Investment (ROI), for software process improvement programs based on the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) Capability Maturity Model for Software (CMM). The research investigated the published ROI claims for software process improvement and sought evidence of...

The Literature suggests that Knowledge Management (KM) might be doomed to failure. This perception is primarily built on the notion that KM is a fallacy and nothing more than Information Management (IM) while suggesting that there is only lip service for KM but no real support. Defenders of KM’s value tend to mislead by reporting only world-class practices in world-class organizations. To date,...

Project management (PM) capabilities define organizational abilities of delivering predictable project results in a changing environment. For evaluation and continuous improvement of the organizational PM capabilities, a PM maturity model is used. This model is a tool to benchmark existing PM processes against best practices and to identify the most suitable practices for implementation in an o...

Very little published evidence exists about the impact of the Capability Maturity Modelsm (CMM) or CMM-based appraisals on subsequent software process improvement and organizational performance. A few credible case studies do exist, but it is uncertain how widely their results apply. We present evidence here from a much broader cross section of software organizations. Our results suggest that p...

The assumption of the work presented in this paper is the situatedness of the change process. The Enterprise Knowledge Development Change Management Method (EKD-CMM) provides multiple and dynamically constructed ways of working to organize and to guide the change management. The method is built on the notion of labeled graph of intentions and strategies called a road map and the associated guid...

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...