Harmonizing ISO-IEC 15504 and CMMI

  • Authors:

  • Terence P. Rout;Angela Tuffley

  • Affiliations:

  • Software Quality Institute, School of Information and Communications Technology, Griffith University, Queensland 4111, Australia;Software Quality Institute, School of Information and Communications Technology, Griffith University, Queensland 4111, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Software Process: Improvement and Practice - Special Issue using ISO-IEC 15504
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The requirements for conformance of a process model to the international standard for process assessment, ISO-IEC 15504, cover a broad range. The most significant of these is the need to establish a complete and unambiguous mapping between the Process Assessment Model and the relevant Process Reference Model and the Measurement Framework described in the Standard. This is required to support the development of a mechanism for translating the outputs from an assessment using the Process Assessment Model into the standard process profiles defined in ISO-IEC 15504. This article reports the results of an analysis of the relationship between CMMI®, as a ‘candidate conformant Process Assessment Model’, relative to the Measurement Framework defined in ISO-IEC 15504-2, and the Process Reference Model described in ISO-IEC 12207 Amd 1-2. It is shown that, while in general terms a complete mapping can be established, there are specific areas where coverage is weak. Use of CMMI as a Process Assessment Model in ISO-IEC 15504 Conformant assessments will need to take account of these issues. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.