The LEGO Maturity & Capability Model Approach

Buglione, Luigi and Gresse von Wangenheim, Christiane and Hauck, Jean Carlo R. and McCaffery, Fergal (2011) The LEGO Maturity & Capability Model Approach. In: 5th World Congress for Software Quality, November 2011, Shanghai, China.

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Abstract

“Maturity model” (MM) (based on Crosby’s original idea) has been one of the main buzzwords over the past 20 years. A variety of MMs have been created in several application domains, from Software Engineering to Contract Management. Despite several models intending to cover the same domain, their PRMs (Process Reference Models) typically have different scopes, do not always cover the same set of processes, or have different levels of depth, or do not express the same level of granularity when describing concepts. Thus some important questions from the MM users’ viewpoint arise: how to choose the right models for our needs? After selecting those models, how to build a new, tailored MM based on several sources and customized to a specific domain? This paper motivates these important questions and proposes a way to choose, combine and adapt the contents from multiple MMs within a generic-domain approach we call ‘LEGO’ (Living EnGineering prOcess), based upon the well-known kids’ toy that stimulates creativity through combining different bricks. We present three case studies, one of them based upon the development of the Medi SPICE model, illustrating how the proposed approach may be used to develop MCM (Maturity & Capabilty Models) in this context

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	LEGO; Maturity Model; Process Improvement; PRM; Process Architecture
Subjects:	Computer Science
Research Centres:	Regulated Software Research Centre
Depositing User:	Sonya Grimley
Date Deposited:	02 Mar 2012 09:15
Last Modified:	11 Nov 2014 16:10
License:	Creative Commons: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0
URI:	https://eprints.dkit.ie/id/eprint/176

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