CMM Practice Application: Infosys's Software Project Execution Process

Author: (India) Jaltot
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: This book takes the process adopted by Infosys (Information Systems Company), a renowned Indian software service provider, as an example. Through explaining the management techniques and processes used in each stage of a typical software project development lifecycle, it vividly illustrates the implementation process of dry and complex theories using an example-based teaching method. The book first briefly reviews the basic theory of CMM (Capability Maturity Model) and introduces the background of Infosys and its general development process. Subsequently, it divides the application of CMM in software development into three parts according to the project lifecycle, including project initiation, project planning, project execution, and closure. The appendix at the end of the book explains how an ISO-certified organization transitions to CMM and provides some experiences of Infosys in implementing CMM. This book can serve as a reference for relevant personnel involved in implementing the CMM system in software organizations and for technical personnel who wish to improve their organization's software development management and processes. It can also be used as a teaching reference for senior undergraduate and graduate students majoring in computer science in the field of software engineering.
CMM (Capability Maturity Model) is a widely used model for evaluating and improving an organization's software development processes. CMM is a framework. It specifies the characteristics of various levels of software development process capability and improvement goals, but it does not provide detailed guidance on how to achieve these capability goals. Moreover, since there are many software application domains, and each organization has its own unique characteristics, there is no unified detailed guide that can solve all the problems faced by organizations. Therefore, each organization must tailor its own software development process based on its specific characteristics.
Hence, to help organizations build CMM and improve their own software development process capabilities, it is very helpful for organizations eager to improve their software management capabilities to provide a comprehensive and systematic introduction to successful CMM system implementation cases based on CMM theory.