CMM in practice: processes for executing software projects at Infosys
CMM in practice: processes for executing software projects at Infosys
Experimentation in software engineering: an introduction
Experimentation in software engineering: an introduction
How ISO 9001 Compares With The CMM
IEEE Software
A Taxonomy to Compare SPI Frameworks
EWSPT '01 Proceedings of the 8th European Workshop on Software Process Technology
A unified model for the implementation of both ISO 9001:2000 and CMMI by ISO-certified organizations
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue: Selected papers from the 11th Asia Pacific software engineering conference (APSEC 2004)
Harmonizing ISO-IEC 15504 and CMMI
Software Process: Improvement and Practice - Special Issue using ISO-IEC 15504
Software process improvement in small and medium software enterprises: a systematic review
Software Quality Control
Tsp(sm)-coaching development teams
Tsp(sm)-coaching development teams
Software Process Improvement in Multimodel Environments
ICSEA '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Fourth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances
Harmonizing maturity levels from CMMI-DEV and ISO-IEC 15504
Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice - Software process improvement and capability determination: selected articles from SPICE 2009
Size and Complexity Attributes for Multimodel Improvement Framework Taxonomy
SEAA '10 Proceedings of the 2010 36th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications
A process for driving the harmonization of models
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Product Focused Software
A strategy for painless harmonization of quality standards: a real case
PROFES'10 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
The multiple quality models paradox: how much ‘best practice’ is just enough?
Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice
Managing process model compliance in multi-standard scenarios using a tool-supported approach
PROFES'12 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
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In the past years, both industrial and research communities in Software Engineering have shown special interest in Software Process Improvement--SPI. This is evidenced by the growing number of publications on the topic. The literature offers numerous quality frameworks for addressing SPI practices, which may be classified into two groups: ones that describe "what" should be done (ISO 9001, CMMI) and ones that describe "how" it should be done (Six Sigma, Goal Question Metrics-GQM). When organizations decide to adopt improvement initiatives, many models may be implied, each leveraging the best practices provided, in the quest to address the improvement challenges as well as possible. This may at the same time, however, generate confusion and overlapping activities, as well as extra effort and cost. That, in turn, risks generating a series of inefficiencies and redundancies that end up leading to losses rather than to effective process improvement. Consequently, it is important to move toward a harmonization of quality frameworks, aiming to identify intersections and overlapping parts, as well as to create a multi-model improvement solution. Our aim in this work is twofold: first of all, we propose a theoretical harmonization process that supports organizations interested in introducing quality management and software development practices or concerned about improving those they already have. This is done with specific reference to CMMI-DEV and ISO 9001 models in the direction "ISO to CMMI-DEV", showing how GQM is used to define operational goals that address ISO 9001 statements, reusable in CMMI appraisals. Secondly, we apply the theoretical comparison process to a real case, i.e., a Small Enterprise certified ISO 9001.