Notes

1. Herbsleb, James, et al., "Benefits of CMM Based Software Process Improvement: Initial Results," Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Institute, Document CMU/SEI-94-TR-13, August 1994.

2. Olsen, Neil C., "Survival of the Fastest: Improving Service Velocity," IEEE Software, September 1995, pp. 28 38.

3. van Solingen, Rini, "The Cost and Benefits of Software Process Improvement," Proceedings of the Eighth European Conference on Information Technology Evaluation, September 17 18, 2001.

4. Jones, Capers, Software Assessments, Benchmarks, and Best Practices, Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley, 2000.

5. Humphrey, Watts, Winning with Software: An Executive Strategy, Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley, 2001.

6. Mills, Harlan D., Software Productivity, Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1983.

7. "Process Maturity Profile of the Software Community 2001 Year End Update," Software Engineering Institute, March 2002.

8. Data in this table is from Herbsleb, James, et al., "Benefits of CMM Based Software Process Improvement: Initial Results," Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Institute, Document CMU/SEI-94-TR-13, August 1994.

9. Adapted from Krasner, Herb, "Accumulating the Body of Evidence for the Pay off of Software Process Improvement 1997," November 19, 1997 (unpublished paper). van Solingen, Rini, "The Cost and Benefits of Software Process Improvement," Proceedings of the Eighth European Conference on Information Technology Evaluation, September 17-18, 2001. Diaz, Michale, and Jeff King, "How CMM Impacts Quality, Productivity, Rework, and the Bottom Line," CrossTalk, vol. 15, no. 3 (March 2002), pp. 9 14.

10. Jones, Capers, Assessment and Control of Software Risks, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Yourdon Press, 1994.

11. The Standish Group, "Charting the Seas of Information Technology," Dennis, MA: The Standish Group, 1994. Johnson, Jim, "Turning Chaos into Success," Software Magazine, December 1999, pp. 30 39 (Johnson is Chairman of The Standish Group).

12. See, for example, Capers, Jones, Patterns of Software Systems Failure and Success, Boston, MA: International Thomson Computer Press, 1996.

13. Lawlis, Dr. Patricia K., Capt. Robert M. Flowe, and Capt. James B. Thordahl, "A Correlational Study of the CMM and Software Development Performance," Crosstalk, September 1995.

14. See, for example, Boehm, Barry, et al., Software Cost Estimation with Cocomo II, Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley, 2000, which contains the coefficient of 2.94, its baseline coefficient, and the exponent of 1.10 as the nominal exponent.

15. NASA Software Engineering Laboratory, Software Engineering Laboratory (SEL) Relationships, Models, and Management Rules, Document Number SEL-91-001, Greenbelt, MD: Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, 1991.

16. Boehm, Barry, et al., Software Cost Estimation with Cocomo II, Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley, 2000.

17. Fetzer, Daniel T., "Making Investment Decisions for Software Process Improvement," DACS Software Tech News, November 2002, pp. 19 22. Also available at www.dacs.dtic.mil/awareness/newsletters. Reifer, Donald J., Making the Software Business Case: Improvement by the Numbers, Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley, 2001.