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Standards and Practices

Everyone has standards. How can you make sure that the quality of work is meeting the standards set by you and your client?

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    Professional Organizations

    Project Management Institute
    Founded in 1969, Project Management Institute (PMI«) is THE organization of choice for project management professionalism. With more than 55,000 members worldwide, PMI« is the leading nonprofit professional association in the area of Project Management. PMI establishes Project Management standards, provides seminars, educational programs and professional certification that more and more organizations desire for their project leaders.

    The Project Management Forum
    The Project Management Forum is a resource for information on international project management affairs dedicated to development, international cooperation, promotion and support of a professional and worldwide project management discipline.

    SPICE
    SPICE has nothing to do with the overexposed, undertalented British girl singing group. SPICE (Software Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination) is a major international initiative to support the development of an international standard for software process assessment. The project has three principal goals: to develop a working draft for a standard for software process assessment, to conduct industry trials of the emerging standard and to promote the technology transfer of software process assessment into the software industry worldwide.

    Software Engineering Information Repository
    The Software Engineering Information Repository (SEIR) provides a forum for the contribution and exchange of information about software engineering improvement activities. Registered SEIR customers can exchange questions or tips and contribute (deposit) experiences or examples to assist each other with their implementation efforts. In the process of contributing this information, SEIR customers are building a knowledge base in this repository for their future use.


    Capability Maturity Model

    Capability Maturity Models
    See what the Software Engineering Institute has been doing to develop new Capability Maturity Models.

    Capability Maturity Model for Software
    (November 30, 1999)
    "The Capability Maturity Model for Software (CMM or SW-CMM) is a model for judging the maturity of the software processes of an organization and for identifying the key practices that are required to increase the maturity of these processes." Sounds easy enough, right? But there's more to it. Through this site, you can learn not only the basics of this model, but how the CMM can be integrated and what it means for software engineers.



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