TY - GEN
T1 - CMM and software process maturity - An industry experience
AU - Liou, Jing Chiou
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - During the last decade, software engineering researchers have tried to identify the success and obstacle factors to the software development. Conclusions from most of the researches related to the issue show that software process is one of the most important subjects contributing into the success or failure to the software development. The Capability Maturity Model (CMM), the ISO9000 series, and best practices are some well known parts of the process management and improvement standards or guidelines. Among them, the CMM is the one specially focusing on the software development. In this paper, we demonstrate that leadership and other human factors can negatively affect the process maturity of software development organizations. Even for those organizations that are assessed for certain levels of process maturity, with no periodical audit from CMM assessors, their process maturity still under influence of these factors. These human factors, based on the industry experience, are identified and possible resolutions are discussed.
AB - During the last decade, software engineering researchers have tried to identify the success and obstacle factors to the software development. Conclusions from most of the researches related to the issue show that software process is one of the most important subjects contributing into the success or failure to the software development. The Capability Maturity Model (CMM), the ISO9000 series, and best practices are some well known parts of the process management and improvement standards or guidelines. Among them, the CMM is the one specially focusing on the software development. In this paper, we demonstrate that leadership and other human factors can negatively affect the process maturity of software development organizations. Even for those organizations that are assessed for certain levels of process maturity, with no periodical audit from CMM assessors, their process maturity still under influence of these factors. These human factors, based on the industry experience, are identified and possible resolutions are discussed.
KW - Process improvement
KW - Process maturity
KW - Project management
KW - Software Engineering
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=1542699808&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:1542699808
SN - 0889863237
SN - 9780889863231
T3 - Proceedings of the 6th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications, SEA 2002
SP - 367
EP - 372
BT - Proceedings of the 6th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications, SEA 2002
PB - Acta Press
T2 - 6th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications, SEA 2002
Y2 - 4 November 2002 through 6 November 2002
ER -