Implementation of CMMI Framework in Small Projects in Small Organizations (An Example of Implementation in Education Domain)

Abstract—Software Quality frameworks like CMMI and Standards like ISO 9000 are understood mostly as applicable for large development projects in large organizations. One reason for this misconception is the amount of documentation that is demanded by these frameworks/standards.
Education (especially Engineering Colleges) is one area where practices of software quality processes have not yet gained any foothold and offers a highly hostile environment for implementation of any quality framework, even though all the processes/procedures laid down in CMMI or ISO are equally applicable for them.
An attempt is made to bring paradigm shift of developing simple software tools and deploy them in Engineering Colleges to meet certain mandatory requirements. Attempt is made to use the CMMI specific practices and some ISO 9001 specified practices and bring-in the necessary process change management into the education system.

Index Terms—CMMI, education, ISO 9000, SARU.

S. Ramakrishna is with Aurora‟s Engineering College, India (email: Ramakrishna_seemakurti@yahoo.com).

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Cite: S. Ramakrishna, "Implementation of CMMI Framework in Small Projects in Small Organizations (An Example of Implementation in Education Domain)," Lecture Notes on Software Engineering vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 156-159, 2013.