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Achieving Business Objectives III: A Real-World Software Process Improvement Implementation

Posted August 1, 2000 | Technology | Cutter Benchmark Review

"Process improvement challenges -- the process cannot be continuously improved if:

  • Sound engineering practices are sacrificed to schedule
  • There is no feedback on process performance
  • Each person does something different
  • Wide variation occurs in performing identical tasks
  • Commitment to improve is not organization-wide

CMM [Capability Maturity Model] overcomes these hurdles one by one."

-- Dr. Bill Curtis1

About The Author
Jim Mayes
About the Author Jim Mayes is currently an estimation consultant with BellSouth and is a certified function point specialist. He has more than 26 years of experience in software development and lifecycle management. Over the past five years, he has been directly involved in providing quantitative software project estimation, data analysis, and metrics related to software process improvement and outsourcing initiatives at BellSouth. Mayes can be… Read More
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