Communications: a software group productivity dominator
Software Engineering Journal
What small business and small organizations say about the CMM: experience report
ICSE '94 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Software engineering
Making Sense of Measurement for Small Organizations
IEEE Software
CMMI Guidlines for Process Integration and Product Improvement
CMMI Guidlines for Process Integration and Product Improvement
Proceedings of the 9th European software engineering conference held jointly with 11th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
QSIC '04 Proceedings of the Quality Software, Fourth International Conference
STEP '04 Proceedings of the 12 International Workshop on Software Technology and Engineering Practice
A Low-overhead method for software process appraisal
Software Process: Improvement and Practice - Special Issue using ISO-IEC 15504
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In this article we show how the results from software process appraisals of ten small- to medium-sized software development enterprises demonstrate that as companies become larger they naturally use an increasing number of practices within the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI®). The companies involved in this study had no CMMI® experience prior to this work. We identify those practices that tend to be best followed by both small- and medium-sized enterprises and those that tend to be introduced as the company size increases from small to medium. We conclude that the CMMI® appears to have an inherent roadmap for process improvement, buried within its explicit structure of capability levels that is driven by company expansion. The results of this study can be used by organisations to plan process improvement as they expand in size and staff complement. We further show how our results are consistent with the European Union's definition of a ‘Small’ and a ‘Medium’ sized enterprise. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Capability Maturity Model, CMM, CMMI are registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by Carnegie Mellon University.