Title: Toward an Assessment of the Impact of
CMM Process Maturity on the Performance and Risk Exposure of Software Development
Projects
Abstract: A model of software development process
maturity, the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) is a staged evolutionary model
which describes five levels of process maturity through which an organization
can progress to define, assess, and improve its software development processes.
Despite its ever-increasing adoption, there remain too few empirical and
generalizable findings when it comes to key questions regarding the model’s
adoption. Researchers and practitioners are still struggling to determine
how CMM-based process improvement efforts affect key organizational concerns
such as software project performance and the threat of risks in today’s dynamic
and complex business environment. In addressing this knowledge gap,
the objective of this paper is to propose a research model that will allow
for an empirical examination of the relationships between CMM software process
maturity and the performance and risk exposure of software development projects.
Author: Dany Di Tullio and Bouchaib Bahli