Different advances have been made in the development of software process improvement (SPI) standards and models, e.g. capability maturity model (CMM), more recently CMMI, and ISO’s SPICE. However, these advances have not been matched by equal advances in the adoption of these standards and models in software development which has resulted in limited success for many SPI efforts. The current pro...

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 Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) is a structured representation of software development processes that can support an organisation’s software process improvement (SPI) strategies. However, CMMI and SPI initiatives generally exhibit low levels of adoption and limited success. One of the major reasons for these shortcomings is that many organisations undertake SPI initiatives with...

This paper Is an attempt to classify the process of Information systems development In different ways. The main perspective Is that Information systems should support business activities In organizations. The development process Is Illustrated by our V-model, ISAC-model and SIV-model. We have experience of applications of these models from Swedish Industry. At the end a three·dimensional classi...

Flexibility and agility are key properties for financial applications development: systems need to be easy to change and evolve to keep up with changing market conditions and opportunities, and changes in the regulatory environment. In many cases, Excel with VB is the main platform used for the development of applications in the finance industry. This offers advantages of flexibility and user c...

Security measures have been well established within the waterfall development life cycle model. However, more software projects are using the spiral development life cycle model. Software developers and project managers can easily forget about adapting security measures within this new approach (Daud, 2010). The spiral model uses iterative steps that can create changes in each phase of software...

Process maturity reference frameworks such as ISO/IEC 15504 and the Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI) seek to assist software process improvement (SPI) efforts by prescribing a roadmap for improving the capability of the development process. However, such frameworks are not widely adopted in the practice [1], [2], especially in smaller software development organisations where the deve...

Model driven architecture provides the models written in well-defined language. They consist of multiple components including model, transformation and meta-model. This architecture is improvement of software development life cycle but it also comprises of several issues, challenges which needs to be addressed. Our focus in this paper is to elaborate the issues and challenges of MDA. Furthermor...

The nature of distributed teams and the existence of multiple sites in offshore software development projects pose a challenging setting for software process improvement. Often, the improvement and appraisal of software processes is achieved through a turnkey solution where best practices are imposed or transferred from a company’s headquarters to its offshore units. In so doing, successful pro...

Agile development gets more appreciation from the market due to its flexible nature and high productivity. Scrum provides better management of the processes as compared to other agile modes. Scrum model has several features and strengths but still it lacks in engineering practices and quality. This research deals with the improvement of Scrum processes for better management and quality of softw...