CMMI and Six Sigma-Relationship & Integration

Author

Kamalakshi, N. ; Naganna, H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Engg, Saptagiri Coll. of Eng., Bangalore, India

fYear

2009

fDate

3-5 April 2009

Firstpage

174

Lastpage

176

Abstract

Organizations that endeavor to improve often find themselves juggling many solutions: maturity models, EIA standards, acquisition standards, ISO standards, measurement best practices, codified lifecycle processes such as Team Software ProcessSM (TSPSM), software development principles, and more. All improvement initiatives selected by an organization should be implemented in an integrated fashion, not as layered or stovepiped efforts.And the result should be a set of organizational processes, used by everyone-from developer to software engineering process group (SEPG)I member to manager-that reflect the features of the improvement initiatives chosen. This paper focuses on two popular improvement initiatives: CMMI and Six Sigma, and their relationships. As CMMI has become more widely institutionalized, Six Sigma has made its way into engineering disciplines.

Keywords

coordinate measuring machines; six sigma (quality); standards; CMMI; EIA standards; ISO standards; SEPG; TSPSM; acquisition standards; codified lifecycle processes; maturity models; measurement best practices; six sigma-relationship; software development principles; software engineering process group; team software process SM; Best practices; ISO standards; Measurement standards; Programming; Six sigma; Software engineering; Software measurement; Software standards; Standards development; Standards organizations; CMMI; six sigma;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Acquisition and Processing, 2009. ICSAP 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3594-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSAP.2009.59

Filename

5163849