Quantitative CMMI Assessment for Offshoring through the Analysis of Project Management Repositories
Issued Date
2009
Resource Type
Language
eng
ISSN
3-642-02986-8
Rights
Mahidol University
Rights Holder(s)
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Suggested Citation
Thanwadee Sunetnanta, Ni-On Nobprapai, Olly Gotel, ธันวดี สุเนตนันท์ (2009). Quantitative CMMI Assessment for Offshoring through the Analysis of Project Management Repositories. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-02987-5_6 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/10452
Title
Quantitative CMMI Assessment for Offshoring through the Analysis of Project Management Repositories
Abstract
Abstract. The nature of distributed teams and the existence of multiple sites in
offshore software development projects pose a challenging setting for software
process improvement. Often, the improvement and appraisal of software
processes is achieved through a turnkey solution where best practices are
imposed or transferred from a company’s headquarters to its offshore units. In
so doing, successful project health checks and monitoring for quality on
software processes requires strong project management skills, well-built
onshore-offshore coordination, and often needs regular onsite visits by software
process improvement consultants from the headquarters’ team. This paper
focuses on software process improvement as guided by the Capability Maturity
Model Integration (CMMI) and proposes a model to evaluate the status of such
improvement efforts in the context of distributed multi-site projects without
some of this overhead. The paper discusses the application of quantitative
CMMI assessment through the collection and analysis of project data gathered
directly from project repositories to facilitate CMMI implementation and reduce
the cost of such implementation for offshore-outsourced software development
projects. We exemplify this approach to quantitative CMMI assessment through
the analysis of project management data and discuss the future directions of this
work in progress
Description
International Conference on Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development. Third International Conference, SEAFOOD 2009 Zurich,Switzerland,July 2009, page 32-44