An exploratory study of why organizations do not adopt CMMI

  • Authors:

  • Mark Staples;Mahmood Niazi;Ross Jeffery;Alan Abrahams;Paul Byatt;Russell Murphy

  • Affiliations:

  • National ICT Australia, Australian Technology Park, Eveleigh, NSW 1430, Australia and Computer Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia;National ICT Australia, Australian Technology Park, Eveleigh, NSW 1430, Australia and School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, United Kingdom;National ICT Australia, Australian Technology Park, Eveleigh, NSW 1430, Australia and Computer Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia;Object Consulting Pty Ltd, Level 5, 451 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia;14 Agonis Court, Mount Martha, VIC 3934, Australia;Dowling Consulting, Level 1, 1102 Toorak Road, Camberwell, VIC 3124, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Systems and Software
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper explores why organizations do not adopt CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration), by analysing two months of sales data collected by an Australian company selling CMMI appraisal and improvement services. The most frequent reasons given by organizations were: the organization was small; the services were too costly, the organization had no time, and the organization was using another SPI approach. Overall, we found small organizations not adopting CMMI tend to say that adopting it would be infeasible, but do not say it would be unbeneficial. We comment on the significance of our findings and research method for SPI research.