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Method for CMMI-DEV Implementation in Distributed Teams

Authors:
Tiago da Cunha Oliveira
Miguel Mira da Silva

Keywords: Development Process, CMMI-DEV, Geographically Distributed Teams, Organizational Change

Abstract:
Organizations tend to perform their work in offshore sites to become more competitive. But managing these teams is not an easy task because it is needed a great level of coordination. So, some organizations adopt maturity models as CMMI-DEV to normalize and coordinate the tasks across the different sites. But it faces difficulties due to the different work practices and cultures in the distributed teams, which can imply a great re-sistance to change. Thus, when an organization wants to put their development process in compliance with CMMI-DEV, we propose that a first assessment should be done by an under-standing of the development processes in each location, making it possible to normalize/standardize the work processes with smaller changes, reducing the cost and resistance to change. This pro-posal was evaluated by applying these methods in a distributed organization with two development branches. One branch has ISO 9001:2008 certification and works in two countries, and the other branch in three countries. The data below supports the objectives of our proposal, pointing to a careful analysis of the different teams, and therefore easier to adopt models such as CMMI-DEV

Pages: 312 to 317

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: October 23, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-165-6

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from October 23, 2011 to October 29, 2011