Dear Umema sahiba,
Thanks for taking out time in answering my query in detail. I am totally agreed what you said. You gave example of the organizations who have adopted SPI and now getting benefit out of it. But all of them are large organization, they build themselves and then went for process improvement. You rightly mentioned the cost factor and its return. You might have noticed that most of these organizations are not improving their level because of cost issues and unstable business conditions.
I want to bring the cost of SPI adoption down for Pakistani project based SMEs like Brazil, China and India did. They trimmed, re-developed and adopted SPI practices as per their domestic software industry conditions. I want to develop a trimmed down version of CMMI which would bring the cost of SPI adoption down. It will lay a foundation for these SMEs to adopt SPI from early stages and internationalize their business.
In your opinion what trimming we can do in CMMI in order to address this issue while keeping project based SME in mind.
Regards,
Hameed
Dear Hammad sahab i am happy to see few of our Pakistani Software Houses like Netsol, Systems limited and also Shukat Khanum memorial's IT department are doing good job in adaptation of SPI in order to enjoy its benefits. I think you should ask this question from some auditor he would better guide you.// Why project based SMEs are not adopting CMMI for their process improvement.-First of all our SMEs do not believe in benefit figures which are available publically and could be seen through SEI website.- Even we hesitate in adapting empirical models at different stages of swdev (like FP, COCOMO, other metrics) they think models should be developed for our environmental data as our cultural issues are entirely different related to our working practices. But no one is practically trying to learn how they could calibrate or build new models this is one major research area .-Software development organizations are not willing to invest single pesa on hiring additional resources. SPI adaptation needs not only certification costs but also we need to follow proper process as well as HR structure for that which means more investment.-I think companies need to literate themselves like from engineering point of view that which proper activity could impact in which direction and after how long their impact should become visible. Without this kind of realization how could SMEs going to realize true worth of SPI. Previously PSEB sponsored major share in this regard and setup very delicate criteria for organizations to quality for this sponsorship.//If they should adopt it then what kind of changes you suggest (what KPIs and goal they opt and what they should leave) they should make in order to afford its cost and improve their processes.- You are using strategic management term KPI with Process Improvement framework, proper way is to use term Process Area (PA) or specific practices for it. It is not necessary that every specific practice reflects some KPI but they may be unavoidable for the adaptation of some specific compulsory process area.- Although from strategic point of view yes we could Map measureable goals of CMMI into KPI. Already allot of case studies are available on SEI repository, DACS website. I would suggest you to Google internet you should find tabular listings for selected Process Areas.-One more thing that is very important which I would like to highlight here is that Pakistani Software Industry is not focusing over intelligent usage of CMMI which is possible under Multimodal scenarios.Here your concern is SME but i think first one should explore with what combination of Software Engineering practices like (Agile, SCRUM, Lean or XP etc) CMMI could outperform. Means adaptation of different SE practices show different variations of PA 's specific practices selection.And SWENG practices selection depends upon our goals. Even for a Quality Software Development environment our preferences might vary. May be we are not interested in Quick delivery of product but we are really concerned with minimal pre-release defect etc.
With kind regards,
Syeda Umema Hani,
PhD (Software Engineering) fellow in Software Process Improvement,
GSESIT, www.hamdard.edu.pk,Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering Department, www.ssuet.edu.pk,
www.ssuet.edu.pk/~suhani, suhani@ssuet.edu.pk, ++92-21-111994994(STI department)
From: Hameed Rehman <hameed.rehman@systemsresearchltd.com>
To: pakgrid@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, 5 April 2012, 14:54
Subject: [pakgrid] CMMI for project based SMEs
Why project based SMEs are not adopting CMMI for their process improvement. If they should adopt it then what kind of changes you suggest (what KPIs and goal they opt and what they should leave) they should make in order to afford its cost and improve their processes.
Regards,
Hameed
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