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Assessing the software process maturity of software engineering courses

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Since its introduction by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) in 1987, the SEI Software Process Maturity Model has gained wide visibility and acceptance by industry. Its overall goal is to enable an organization to assess its software process maturity in order that it might be able to improve its software development process. Inspired by the success of the SEI model, this paper describes an attempt to develop an analogous, but highly simplified and unvalidated process maturity framework applicable to software engineering project courses. Our goal is to enable an instructor of a software engineering project course to assess the software development processes utilized in the course and to improve these processes leading to better managed and more successful projects.

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          cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
          ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 26, Issue 1
          March 1994
          410 pages
          ISSN:0097-8418
          DOI:10.1145/191033
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          • cover image ACM Conferences
            SIGCSE '94: Proceedings of the twenty-fifth SIGCSE symposium on Computer science education
            March 1994
            414 pages
            ISBN:0897916468
            DOI:10.1145/191029

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