Abstract

Nowadays, the research on improvements of software development processes has been developing extensively in software organizations. Currently these researches are focusing on how to combine CMMI with Agile. In addition, most of the software development organizations all over the world are small or medium, not large. Such small and medium-sized organizations play a great role in the software industry. However, there is lack of case studies that small and medium-sized organizations implement CMMI process areas to establish their development management systems, especially practical and helpful case studies that such organizations may apply to combine with Agile for improving their management systems. Our goal is to share our experience in successful improvements of development process under the industrial environment from an empirical point of view. And these results cannot be generalized, but they point out that under some circumstances in small and medium-sized organizations, a combination strategy of CMMI and Agile can be a possible option for software professionals. In this paper we present our experience of implementing a DMS (Development Management System), in which CMMI is combined with Agile, for a small and medium-sized software development aiming at CMMI level 3. Moreover, we give the result that our organization applied this DMS.