Factors for the design of CMMI-based software process improvement initiatives

Proceedings - 14th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, PCI 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 43-47

  Dounos, Petros ^a   Bohoris, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

CMMI; Critical factors; Maturity; Process improvement; Software

Indexed keywords

CMMI; CRITICAL FACTORS; MATURITY; PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; SOFTWARE;

INFORMATION SCIENCE; INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 78649297327     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PCI.2010.46     Document Type: Conference Paper

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