Software Process Management

Abstract

The paper gives an overview of the software process using the capability maturity model instituted by the Software Engineering Institute at the Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA and also briefly focuses on a sequence of maturity levels in the software process that can be observed in development organisations. The paper aims to express the need for process management and understand something of the conditions that determine where one is and where one can hope to be. An attempt is also made to provide a framework and some techniques for evaluating and improving the process of developing software.