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Enhancing Open Source Software in Alignment with CMMI-DEV
March/April 2009 (vol. 26 no. 2)
pp. 59-67
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Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim, Jean Carlo Rossa Hauck, Aldo von Wangenheim, "Enhancing Open Source Software in Alignment with CMMI-DEV," IEEE Software, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 59-67, March/April, 2009.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MS.2009.34,
author = {Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim and Jean Carlo Rossa Hauck and Aldo von Wangenheim},
title = {Enhancing Open Source Software in Alignment with CMMI-DEV},
journal ={IEEE Software},
volume = {26},
number = {2},
issn = {0740-7459},
year = {2009},
pages = {59-67},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MS.2009.34},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim, Universidade do Vale do Itajaí
Jean Carlo Rossa Hauck, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Aldo von Wangenheim, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
To provide comprehensive, low-cost tool support for project monitoring and control for small organizations in particular, the authors compare the most popular free/open source Web-based project management applications against their compliance to CMMI-DEV. Based on this analysis, they implement a set of enhancements to dotProject, including Earned Value Management, and evaluate the resulting application with respect to its CMMI-compliance. Their initial experiences applying the tool in an R&D organization indicate that it helps establish a systematic project monitoring and control process by supporting or automating tasks. In this way, it presents an open, flexible, and free tool-integration solution for project management, illustrating that open-source tools might be appealing, especially for small organizations.

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Index Terms:
management, tools, project control and modeling, open source software
Citation:
Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim, Jean Carlo Rossa Hauck, Aldo von Wangenheim, "Enhancing Open Source Software in Alignment with CMMI-DEV," IEEE Software, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 59-67, March-April 2009, doi:10.1109/MS.2009.34
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