Dependency analysis between CMMI process areas

  • Authors:
  • Paula Monteiro;Ricardo J. Machado;Rick Kazman;Cristina Henriques

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidade do Minho;Universidade do Minho;Software Engineering Institute;I2S, Informática Sistemas e Serviços

  • Venue:
  • PROFES'10 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

SPI and in particular CMMI is being widely use by several organizations to improve their product quality. However, the SMEs are reluctant in adopting it and in particular maturity level 2 of CMMI, because they think that achieving this level is too expensive and do not see a clear benefit on it. Our solution to captivate the interest of SMEs in CMMI is the anticipation of some process areas of maturity level 3 considered as a benefit by the organization and implement those process areas at the same time of maturity level 2 of CMMI. In this paper, we identify the dependencies among all the process areas of CMMI and between all the process areas of each maturity level. Our study was conducted to identify the impact on the dependencies of maturity level 2 when we introduce some process areas of maturity level 3 in the implementation effort.