(The same assumptions as those in homework 10)Suppose you are the Chief Technology Officer of the 500-employee company, Software House, Inc., which builds custom applications for large financial companies. The typical project involves about 30-50 employees. These companies need a lot of agility and speed of development to respond to a rapidly changing markerplace, but also need high-quality software to avoid large financial losses from software defects.
Your President asks you to investigate the potential of adopting Capability Maturity Models to improve quality without large loss of agility and speed.
Use the internet, the USC libraries, and other sources of information to prepare a pro-and-con table of bulleted items summarizing the advantages and difficulties of CMM's in this regard. For each bulleted item, append a referenced quotation from one of your sources substantiating the bulleted item.
Grading criteria will include the number and relevance of the bulleted items, and the number and diversity of sources quoted.