Design and evaluation of a CMMI conformant light-weight project management approach

Abstract

CMMI is one of the well-known and accepted maturity models that many software organizations have implemented for its quality processes which are expected to bring a good quality for their software products. However, traditional software process models become too heavy-weight to be deployed. The aim of this research is to design the Light-Weight Project Management (LWPM) approach to implement CMMI by mapping between CMMI goals and Agile-Scrum based on defined artifacts and to indicate the differences in applying LWPM and the traditional Waterfall model. Our approach focuses on the Project Management category which composes Project Planning (PP), Project Monitoring and Control (PMC) and Integrated Project Management (IPM). In order to compare both models we collected relevant data by using questionnaire and also the dedicated tool SPIALS (Software Process Improvement Adaptive Learning System).