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A FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSING SYSTEMS ENGINEERING CAPABILITY
Author(s) -
Brill James H.,
Brammer Karl G.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.1993.tb01638.x
Subject(s) - software engineering , leancmmi , software engineering process group , capability maturity model , computer science , software development , system of systems engineering , software system , social software engineering , maturity (psychological) , systems engineering , key (lock) , software , software development process , software construction , engineering , systems design , operating system , psychology , developmental psychology
The Capability Maturity Model (CMM) was developed by the Software Engineering Insitute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University to provide a methodology for assessing an organization's capability in software engineering. The paper presents an attempt to generalize the CMM from software engineering to systems engineering. Starting from an overview and comparison of systems and software engineering disciplines, a brief summary of the original CMM is provided. The authors analyze if and how its criteria and key areas are transferrable to systems engineering. Allowing for the differences between the systems and software engineering processes, they propose the modifications necessary to adapt and generalize the SEI methodology accordingly. As a result the outline of a Systems Engineering Maturity Model is presented.