An exploratory study of why organizations do not adopt CMMI

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 883-895

  Staples, Mark ^a,c   Niazi, Mahmood ^a,b   Jeffery, Ross ^a,c   Abrahams, Alan ^d   Byatt, Paul ^e   Murphy, Russell ^f  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d AMC Consultants Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^e Dowling Consulting ^*  (Australia)

^f Dowling Consulting   (Australia)

Author keywords

Capability maturity model; CMM; CMMI; Software process improvement

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DATA REDUCTION; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES;

CAPABILITY MATURITY MODEL INTEGRATION (CMMI); SALES DATA; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 33947433928     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2006.09.008     Document Type: Article

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