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Sat, Nov 8, 4:00 - 5:00, Rio Vista C Panel Discussion IS Curriculum

Recommended Citation: White, B A, H E Longenecker, P M Leidig, J H Reynolds, and D M Yarbrough. Applicability of CMMI to the IS Curriculum. In The Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference 2003, v 20 (San Diego): §3515. ISSN: 1542-7382.

Applicability of CMMI to the IS Curriculum

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Bruce A. White    [a1] [a2]
Quinnipiac University    [u1] [u2]
Hamden, Connecticut, USA    [c1] [c2]

Herbert E. (Bart) Longenecker, Jr    [a1] [a2]
University of South Alabama    [u1] [u2]
Mobile, Alabama, USA    [c1] [c2]

Paul M. Leidig    [a1] [a2]
Grand Valley State University    [u1] [u2]
Allendale, Michigan, USA    [c1] [c2]

John H. Reynolds    [a1] [a2]
Grand Valley State University    [u1] [u2]
Allendale, Michigan, USA    [c1] [c2]

David M. Yarbrough    [a1] [a2]
Northrop Grumman Inc.    [u1] [u2]
Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA    [c1] [c2]

Information Systems (IS), as an academic discipline, has grown from its early days as data processing to where we are now, recognized as a true academic discipline, with graduates assuming positions as systems analysts, project managers, applications developers, web designers and more. Business cannot live without quality information. Quality information systems have become the lifeblood that sustains business; but, information systems projects became notorious for being late, over budget and not delivering what was originally promised or worse yet, having no idea about the true nature of the system requirements at all. A major step to remedying this was the promulgation of the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), which assessed how effectively software development groups were performing. Recently, Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI) was advanced by Carnegie Mellon as the extension of the CMM concepts to organizations. This panel will explore the combining of academic discipline specifications of IS 2002 with the controlled and measured approaches of the CMMI to effectively monitor and deal with IS curriculum change and quality enhancement.

Keywords: CMMI, IS model curriculum, assessment, quality

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