Mapping CMMI Project Management Process Areas to SCRUM Practices

- Over the past years, the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) and Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) have been broadly used for assessing organizational maturity and process capability throughout the world [20]. However, the rapid pace of change in information technology has caused increasing frustration with the heavyweight plans, specifications, and other documentation imposed by contractual inertia and maturity model compliance criteria [4]. In the light of that, agile methodologies have been adopted to tackle this challenge. The aim of our paper is to present a mapping between CMMI to one of these methodologies, the Scrum. It shows how Scrum addresses the Project Management Process Areas of CMMI. This is useful for organizations that have their plandriven process based on CMMI model and are planning to improve its processes towards agility or to help organizations to define a new project management framework based on both CMMI and Scrum practices.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: SEW
• Authors: Ana Sofia C. Marcal, Felipe Santana Furtado Soares, Arnaldo Dias Belchior
• Keywords: Capability Maturity Model, Capability Maturity Model Integration, Maturity Model, SEW 2007, Software Engineering