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ACM SIGSOFT SOFTWARE ENGINEERING NOTES vol 17 no 4 A Software Process Immaturity Model Oct 1992 Page 22 Anthony Finkelstein Imperial College, 180 Queens Gate, London SW7 The software process maturity model (Humphrey, Kitson & Kasse 1989) is now well established, and togetJher with the associated assessment approaches, has been the focus of considerable attention lfrom software producers and acquisition authorities. The model breaks down the software engineering capabilities of organisations into 5 maturity levels from Level 1 - Initial to Level 5 Optimising. The model is summarised in Table I below. LEVEL CHARACTERISTIC KEY PROBLEM AREAS optimising improvement fed back into process automation managed (quar~itive) measured process (qualitative) process defined & institutionalised (intuitive) process dependent on individuals changing technology problem analysis problem prevention process me asurement process analysis quantitive quality plans training technical practices process focus project management project planning configuration management software quality assurance defined repeatable initial (ad hoc/chaotic) Table 1: a software process maturity model Assessment gives the impression that a significant proportion (according to SEI data more than 70%) of these organisations are at Level 1. The framework is, of course, misleading. Many of these organisations lie well below the merely chaotic. They belong
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes – Association for Computing Machinery
Published: Oct 1, 1992
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