Progress in evaluation of SPI efforts in small and medium organizations

COLLA, PEDRO; MONTAGNA, JORGE

San José, California, USA

Workshop; 3rd SEI CMMI High Maturity Measurement and Analysis Workshop; 2009

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) - Carnegie Mellon University

This work is meant to help small- and medium-sized software development organizations throughout Argentina better understand the costs and benefits of investing in software process improvement. Rather than focus on a single organization at a time, the modeling is based on comparisons across organizations. The modeling effort was both deterministic and stochastic. The deterministic model is based on mathematical transfer functions meant to integrate the analytical work into a single framework (using VenSim). The presentation is focused on the stochastic results of Monte Carlo analyses (using GoldSim). The results based on survey data collected expressly for the modeling effort are also discussed.