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High Levels of Process Capability in CMMI and ISO/IEC 15504

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Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination (SPICE 2011)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 155))

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The recent release of CMMI V1.3 incorporates a number of changes to the model and framework; one of the more interesting is the decision to do away with Capability Levels 4 and 5 in the Continuous Representation, while retaining the high levels of Organizational Maturity. This paper examines some of the issues that may have driven this decision, and explores the opportunity provided for greater interaction between CMMI and ISO/IEC 15504.

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  1. Software Quality Institute, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia

    Terry Rout

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  1. Lero, The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

    Rory V. O’Connor

  2. Software Quality Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Terry Rout

  3. Regulated Software Research Group, Lero, The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Dundalk, Ireland

    Fergal McCaffery

  4. InterSPICE Ltd, 23 King Street, CB1 1AH, Cambridge, UK

    Alec Dorling

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Rout, T. (2011). High Levels of Process Capability in CMMI and ISO/IEC 15504. In: O’Connor, R.V., Rout, T., McCaffery, F., Dorling, A. (eds) Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination. SPICE 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 155. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21233-8_20

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