The environment surrounding enterprises is complex and rapidly changing. To supply superior products at the optimum timing and achieve continuous evolution, enterprises must clearly visualize and manage complex product development processes by considering the quality, cost, speed, and environment. To address these needs, the authors have initiated two activities that...
There is a widespread demand for factual information about the impact and benefits of process improvement based on Capability Maturity Model Integration CMMI models. Much has been learned since the Software Engineering Institute SEI published a special report on this topic over two years ago. There now is evidence that...
The phenomenon of organisations concurrently implementing multiple process frameworks was highlighted in a survey conducted at the Australian Information Tech Technology Service Management Forum. While the survey gathered insights on the status, issues and expectations of organisations implementing the IT Infrastructure Library ITIL, it was evident from the data co...
The first step in aligning IT and business priorities is to understand where relationships break down and expectations differ. A tool based on the Capability Maturity Model developed by Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute can help you assess how well-integrated IT is with the company's goals. Spotting divergent viewpoints presents...
Compliance is becoming a widespread issue for most organizations. This trend started in voluntary certifications and assessments like ISO 9000 and CMM. What distinguished these early assessments was that they were primarily driven by reasons of marketing, competitive differentiation and customer satisfaction. Of late, compliance is a product of regulation....
Organizations that endeavor to improve their processes often find themselves juggling many approaches to achieve that improvement. To be most effective, all improvement initiatives selected should be implemented in an integrated fashion, not as layered or stovepiped efforts. This paper focuses on the joint use of two popular improvement initiatives:...
It's becoming clear that companies are trying to take better advantage of IT-enabling technologies to become more efficient. However, too often IT is siloed, and technology risks are not uniformly managed from an overall business objective and business risk perspective. This article discusses the Capability Maturity Model as a potent...
Lithuanian IT companies have a growing interest in the software quality assurance and software process improvement. However, specialized software process models, such as CMM Capability Maturity Model or ISO 15504 SPICE, are not widely known. The object of this paper is a case study of the software process improvement effort...
In this paper issues of creating case tools, implementing capability maturity models, for software process improvement are analyzed. A range of aspects of using the maturity models were analyzed to this end; these aspects were taken into consideration when designing the case tools structure. The group of existing case tools...
This paper presents an integrated framework for software process improvement according to CMM. The framework is double-integrated. First, it is based on the systematic integration of dynamic modules to build a dynamic model to model each maturity level proposed in the reference model. As a consequence, a hierarchical set of...
Managing software development is thus increasingly a major factor of survey success. Meanwhile, many methods and models for managing software development are being explored in the Information Technology community. This paper examines the plan to improve the way statistical software is developed to support Economic surveys at the U.S. Census...
Total quality management TQM, ISO 9000, the Capability Maturity Model standards, and the consequent operational-performance indicators of organizations are of interest to researchers as well as the business community. An empirical study addressing these issues is presented in this article. The study, probably the first of its kind in the...
One of the main problems with software engineering is due to the difficulties in evaluating and improving the software processes, especially in the light of the fact that reuse depends on a process which supports it. Generally used approaches to the evaluation and improvement of software processes are based on...
Much of the work on process maturity takes inspiration from the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model (SEI CMM.). CMM was developed for software engineering disciplines before the advent of BPM systems. Frameworks based on CMM concepts can incorrectly conflate the maturity of business processes with the maturity with which...
With CIOs increasingly dependent on outside service providers to help with software projects, some have come to view Capability Maturity Model CMM (and its new, more comprehensive successor, CMM Integration, or CMMI) as the USDA seal of approval for software providers. Yet CIOs who buy the services of a provider...
In January 2004, CSO Insights released the results of its 10th annual sales performance research initiative which entailed surveying over 1,300 companies worldwide regarding the sales challenges they were facing, and more importantly what they were doing to address them. In the past, to support CMM, companies often developed in-house...
Researches suggest that any qualitative product cannot give profitable results, unless it has been marketed well. It has been observed quite often that companies focus more on expanding their business, rather than on marketing strategies. As a result, most business organizations fail to carve a niche in the global market....
The last decade has been nothing but tumultuous for Russians who have seen their linear cultural history - which dwarfs an American timeline - politically reborn yet again. Visit the museums here and it will feel cyclical. There are winners and losers, the marginalized and the radically rewarded. The Russian...
Producers of the co-ordinate measuring machines CMM deliver many additional measuring programs for the special purposes. There are programs for the measurement of the gears. It is of great importance to carry out the accurate metrological analysis of the measuring process and the final error of the gears' measurement with...
An attempt to formal description of the procedure of optimization of measuring strategy on CMM was made and is being discussed briefly in this paper. A set of feasible solutions, constrains and objective function were defined. Chosen steps of optimization were described. An example of documenting of measuring strategy was...
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