Paper Info
Title
Software Process Maturity and Organizational Politics
Abstract
The discipline of information systems development has witnessed a tremendous interest in improving software processes. It is believed that improving a systems development organization's software processes will alleviate problems with productivity and systems quality. In this paper we explore the limitations of the theories and models behind software process maturity. Through an action research project with a systems development organization, we illustrate how maturity models ignore issues of structural conflicts and contradictory demands manifest in most organizations. This limits the models' ability to explain software practice and thus limits their usefulness for guiding organizational change processes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1007/978-0-387-35489-7_16
Realigning Research and Practice in Information Systems Development
Keywords
Field
DocType
organizational politics,software process maturity,software process
Information system,Personal software process,Capability Maturity Model,Software development process,Project manager,Action research,Empirical process (process control model),Process management,Social software engineering,Business
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
66
1571-5736
0-7923-7420-7
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.77
10
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Peter Axel Nielsen154747.07
Jacob Nørbjerg213011.98