(Inderscience enterprises ltd., 2016-01-01) Amulen, Christine; Kituy M, Geoffrey
The study involved a survey of Ugandan small and medium
enterprises that develop software on critical factors influencing the adoption of
software capability maturity model. The research examined the software
development environment in these small and medium enterprises and the
operational tenets of the software capability maturity modelling in order to
establish the critical parameters that should be considered for successful
adoption of the software capability maturity model by small and medium
software enterprises. Quantitative data was analysed using factor analysis to
deduce the critical factors on the variables based on the data collected from the
field. Linear regression analysis was also done to determine whether there was
a significant relationship between adoption of software capability maturity
model and adoption parameters. The key parameters for adoption of
the software capability maturity model were identified as management’s
ability to choose appropriate improvement strategy, organisational
culture, managements’ commitment, developers’ involvement, effective
communication, rewards, training and project championship.