UNIT – I:
Software Process Maturity
Software maturity Framework, Principles of Software Process Change, Software Process Assessment, The Initial Process, The Repeatable Process, The Defined Process, The Managed Process, The Optimizing Process.
Process Reference Models
Capability Maturity Model (CMM), CMMI, PCMM, PSP, TSP).
1. Introduction:
Software project management is the art and science of planning and leading software projects. It is a sub-discipline of project management in which software projects are planned, monitored and controlled. It comprises of a number of activities, which contains planning of project, deciding scope of software product, estimation of cost in various terms, scheduling of tasks and events, and resource management.
It is extremely important for the following reasons:
- Software development is highly unpredictable
- Management has a greater effect on the success or failure of a project than technology advances.
- Too often there is too much scrap and rework. The entire process is very immature, not enough reuse
A. Software Process Maturity
Software Process maturity Framework:
The Software Process maturity framework, developed at the SEI, addresses these five (05) steps by characterizing a software process into one of the five maturity levels. By establishing their organization’s position in this maturity structure, software professionals and management can more readily identify those areas where improvement actions are most likely to produce results.
The Five Maturity Levels are given below…
- Initial
- Repeatable
- Defined
- Managed
- Optimizing
