Title :
Are CMM Program Investments Beneficial? Analyzing Past Studies
Author :
Galin, Daniel ; Avrahami, Motti
Author_Institution :
Ruppin Acad. Center
Abstract :
CMM experts strongly believe that investments in programs promoting an organization´s CMM maturity yield substantial organizational and economic benefits. In particular, they argue that CMM programs that implement software process improvements can provide more benefits
Keywords :
Capability Maturity Model; cost-benefit analysis; investment; software cost estimation; software metrics; CMM program investments; economic benefits; software metrics; software process improvements; Coordinate measuring machines; Costs; Environmental economics; Investments; Measurement; Productivity; Programming; Scheduling; Software performance; Standards development; CMM; ROI; cycle time; error density; error detection effectiveness; productivity; return on investment; rework; schedule fidelity; software development performance metrics;
Journal_Title :
Software, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MS.2006.149
