Abstract
Many software organizations face serious problems in their attempts to
make expectations and realities meet in introducing CASE technology. One
promising approach to understanding CASE introduction better and to
managing it more effectively has been developed by relating CASE
introduction to the Capability Maturity Model (CMM). This paper reviews
software process maturity as a framework for CASE introduction. The
relevance of the framework is discussed and three critical questions are
explored: 1) What is the role of organizational experiments in CASE
introduction? 2) How do the functional characteristics of CASE
technology influence CASE introduction? and 3) How does the
organizational context influence CASE introduction? The aim of the
paper, by way of this discussion, is to explicate the strengths and
limits of software process maturity as a framework for CASE
introduction, and to identify the most important supplementary issues
Original language | English |
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Journal | Information Systems Journal |
Volume | 6 |
Issue number | 3 |
Pages (from-to) | 195-208 |
Number of pages | 14 |
ISSN | 1350-1917 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jul 1996 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- CASE diffusion
- Software process maturity
- The capability maturity model