The Long Road to Software Process Improvement:A Chronology of One Company’s Efforts

摘要

In late November 1996, AA Company (AAC) formed a'methodology team' that began looking at ways to improvethe company's development environment. Currently (circaFebruary 2000), AAC is following a plan for improvementbased on the Capability Maturity Model (CMM). AAC'sinitial effort to use CMM as a software processimprovement (SPI) framework was somewhat flawed and,as a result, AAC has invested more than three years on theprocess; they still have a long way to go. This paperchronicles the route taken by AAC in their quest to improvesoftware development and highlights some of the triumphsand traps along the way.