Call for Papers

The Workshop on CMMI based Process Improvement in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises aims at gathering together researchers and practitioners to discuss experiences in the application of CMMI in industrial software organizations. CMMI is one of the most accepted process improvement approaches. In software development CMMI-DEV is applied by many organizations. SEI reports that 60% of the appraised organizations are small and medium sized organizations. Another report shows that this number is increasing. Because a CMMI based process improvement program takes time and is expensive many small and medium size software development organizations are still facing problems in applying CMMI. One goal of this workshop is to exchange experience on how to set up, apply and organize a CMMI based process improvement processes in small and medium size enterprises.

Topics of Interest

The topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following:

• Case studies and experience reports on successful or failed application of CMMI based improvement programs in industry
• Experiences with the different representations of CMMI (staged and continuous)
• Approaches to select process areas based on the organization’s needs
• Application of CMMI in the context of agile development approaches
• Mixed process improvement programs based on CMMI, ITIL, COBIT or other improvement models
• Measuring the impact on process improvement program to key performance indicators
• Tools and environments supporting CMMI or mixed process improvement programs

The accepted workshop papers will be published as a Universiti Technologi Malaysia publication with ISBN number. The presentations slides will be published on the SPISME-2011 website.

Some best papers of the SPISME workshop are awarded and will be sent to Journal of Digital Content Technology and its Applications (JDCTA, SCOPUS indexed) or the International Journal of Advancements in Computing Technology (IJACT, EI indexed).  

Here you can get the PDF-Version of the Call for Papers.