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Making a Method Work for a Project Situation in the Context of CMM

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Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2002)

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Abstract

Adaptation of Information Systems Development (ISD) methods has been a very important issue as it promises ‘making a method work for a project situation’ rather then bringing on ‘hardconstraints’ for practitioners. This is especially true for those organizations that target a business centered system development in new application domains. The goal of this paper is to show the best practices pertaining to tailoring a method on project-by-project basis in an organization. The best practices regarding tailoring a method correspond to some of the activities defined in Software Product Engineering, one of the key process areas in CMM Level 3. The paper also addresses a model available in method engineering domain as an underlying rationale behind the best practices used in the organization. By doing so, we intend to show how the best practices are backed by a theory and what possible enhancements in the area of ISD are foresighted in the coming future in the organization.

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  1. Department of Business Information Systems, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500, AE Enschede, The Netherlands

    Mehmet N. Aydin

  2. Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, IT Process Consulting Group, P.O. Box 2575, 3500, GN Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Frank Harmsen

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  2. VTT Electronics, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, P.O. Box 1100, 90571, Oulu, Finland

    Seija Komi-Sirviö

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Aydin, M.N., Harmsen, F. (2002). Making a Method Work for a Project Situation in the Context of CMM. In: Oivo, M., Komi-Sirviö, S. (eds) Product Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2559. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36209-6_15

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