An exploratory study of why organizations do not adopt CMMI

Mark Staples; Mahmood Niazi; Ross Jeffery; Alan Abrahams; Paul Byatt; Russell Murphy

doi:10.1016/j.jss.2006.09.008

An exploratory study of why organizations do not adopt CMMI

Mark Staples^*
, Mahmood Niazi
, Ross Jeffery
, Alan Abrahams
, Paul Byatt
, Russell Murphy

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This paper explores why organizations do not adopt CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration), by analysing two months of sales data collected by an Australian company selling CMMI appraisal and improvement services. The most frequent reasons given by organizations were: the organization was small; the services were too costly, the organization had no time, and the organization was using another SPI approach. Overall, we found small organizations not adopting CMMI tend to say that adopting it would be infeasible, but do not say it would be unbeneficial. We comment on the significance of our findings and research method for SPI research.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	883-895
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of Systems and Software
Volume	80
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2006.09.008
State	Published - Jun 2007
Externally published	Yes

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Thanks to Paul Bannerman, Barbara Kitchenham, and anonymous reviewers for providing comments and advice that have improved this paper. National ICT Australia is funded by the Australian Government’s Department of Communications, Information Technology, and the Arts and the Australian Research Council through Backing Australia’s Ability and the ICT Research Centre of Excellence programs.

Keywords

CMM
CMMI
Capability maturity model
Software process improvement

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Information Systems
Hardware and Architecture

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