Management of Software Projects in Industry:
CMMI vs RSPM

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The CMMI has been developed at CMU,
 under a DARPA project!

Major source: 

CMMI Product Team,
CMMI Version 1.1,
Carnegie-Mellon Software Engineering Institute, USA


The RSPM has been developed at the Rational Rose Corporation,
after a USAF experience!

Major source:

Walker Royce,
Software Project Management: A Unified Framework,
Prentice Hall, USA

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These two approaches compete 
for the next generation software management practices.

Many organizations still use the waterfall model,
which is not powerfull enough for issues like:

Commercial Component Integration
Software Reuse
Risk Management
Evolutionary Software Process

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The same methodology applies for hardware, too.
For details see selected pages from the book by Milutinovic, 
specified in the list of readings for this course.

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Alternatives:

1) Microsoft Project
2) PMBoK (Project Management Body of Knowledge)
3) Six Sigma
4) Global Project Management