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Short for Capability Maturity Model Integration, this is a set of best practices developed by the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute. This tag can refer to several different versions, to include: CMMI for Acquisition, CMMI for Development, or CMMI for Services.

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Any empirical evidence on the efficacy of CMMI?

I am wondering if there are any studies that examine the efficacy of software projects in CMMI-oriented organizations. For example, are CMMI organizations more likely to finish projects on time and/or on budget than non-CMMI organizations? CMMI…
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How should standards and process improvements be introduced to an organization without them?

I've been tasked with improving the software development process through the implementation of process improvements, of which we will most likely be using CMMI for Development, Version 1.3 as a guideline and adopting the best practices in whole or…
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Scrum vs. Agile vs. CMMI

I am pushing my project over to Visual Studio Online in order to have some source control. I am developing this project by myself. I have never used Scrum, Agile, nor CMMI before, and the detailed description I read at…
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What kind of metrics, if any, can be collected from requirements development?

We elicit requirements from our product stakeholders by creating and refining user stories in monthly sprint planning meetings. This includes defining use cases, acceptance criteria, and identifying constraints, and the final result is a sprint…
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What types of positions might involve improving processes using CMMI and Scrum?

I'm an IT student and have been working on team based projects for several years. I've read some papers about CMMI and Scrum; this is really interesting to me and I would like to know what kind of jobs involve improving processes inside an…
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How much static analysis history should a company keep?

Supposing you work in a very large global company with lot of code at all levels (e.g. from embedded to mobile platform application code), and projects can last anything between 6 months to 5 years... What would be considered the best practice in…
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How to document and peer review design in scrum?

I am a relatively new developer in a small business (a team of 3 developers and an equally small QA branch) working on a medium-sized system. The current iteration is still under 100k lines of code (server & client combined), but I could imagine…
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Can testers peer review the developers' design and code?

I am a junior developer for a small business using scrum / agile development. A long-term goal of ours is to be appraised at CMMI lvl 2. We have a team of 3 senior developers who implement user stories and a handful of junior developers for…
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Does a manufacturing plant need to have CMMI (Level 2 or otherwise) compliance?

I'm giving a presentation tomorrow on Software Process and Machine Learning. My primary goal with the process slides are to get across that most of it is really reliant on project management and personal time management techniques. I mention things…
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Meeting CMMI Verification Steps

For my software engineering project I will be creating software to automate tasks. In my project management module I have been asked to describe and evaluate how I can met all the specific goals for Verification in CMMI Version 1.3. By looking at…
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