Agile Methodology in Software Development (SMEs) of Pakistan Software Industry for Successful Software Projects (CMM Framework)
The emergence of software offshore outsourcing phenomena hits every country positively and one of the offshore client/vendor attractng factor is CMM certification. CMM is a well recognized and globally accepted standard in software development to process control, quality improvement, and measurement of software firms capability. Therefore, Pakistani software firms (SMEs) are striving to achieve the CMM certifications to earn profit from offshore clients. In fact, CMM certification is not easy to adopt for all level of firms. Pakistan software industry is at its initial stage, so it is not recommendable to jump for CMM by software firms (SMEs) directly. The present research paper suggests that these software firms (SMEs) should go for adaptation of agile development methodology for excellent performance on the foot steps of CMM. In this way, software firms (SMEs) can leads toward CMM after agile maturity. The authors used the extreme Programming (XP) as an example that proves Agile Development Methodology can well fit the CMM framework and software development firms (SMEs) can achieve their objectives to participate in offshore outsourcing phenonmena.
eXtreme Programming CMM Agile Methodology SMEs (software firms)
Muhammad Ishfaq Khan Muzaffar Ali Qureshi Qaisar Abbas
Department of Management Sciences Mohammad Ali Jinnah University Islamabad-Pakistan Deaprtment of Managment Sciences COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Islamabad - Pakistan
国际会议
2010 International Conference on Educational and Network Technology(2010教育与网络技术国际会议 ICENT 2010)
秦皇岛
英文
576-580
2010-06-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）