Impact of CMMI-based process maturity levels on effort, productivity and diseconomy of scale

Alyahya, M. and Ahmad, R. and Lee, S.P. (2012) Impact of CMMI-based process maturity levels on effort, productivity and diseconomy of scale. International Arab Journal of Information Technology, 9 (4). pp. 352-360. ISSN 1683-3198,

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Abstract

The Software Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) has become a popular Software Process Improvement (SPI) model for enhancing software development processes with the goal of developing high-quality software within budget and schedule. Since software development effort can be greatly affected by the organizational process maturity level, this study examines the impact of different CMMI-based process maturity levels on effort, productivity development team and diseconomy of scale for a standard project sizes. The COnstructive COst MOdel (COCOMO) is employed to compute the software development effort. The percentage of change (increase or decrease) in software development effort, productivity and diseconomy of scale is employed as a measure of effectiveness for this study. The results of this work demonstrate that each higher CMMI maturity level has a considerable impact in decreasing the development effort, increasing the productivity rate and reducing the diseconomy of scale. The results also indicate that the impact of CMMI-based maturity levels significantly increases with project sizes.

Item Type: Article
Funders: UNSPECIFIED
Additional Information: Times Cited: 0 Alyahya, Majed Ahmad, Rodina Lee, Sai Peck
Uncontrolled Keywords: CMMI, process maturity, COCOMO II, effort multipliers, scale factors, diseconomy of scale, productivity rate
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software
Divisions: Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology > Department of Software Engineering
Depositing User: Ms Maisarah Mohd Muksin
Date Deposited: 05 Jul 2013 01:48
Last Modified: 05 Jul 2013 01:48
URI: http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/6684

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