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ABSTRACT: Pakistan Software industry despite having potential failed to progress well in order to capture fair amount of international market share. Due to poor quality practices and lack of standardized practices Pakistan software industry ranked as tier-3 among the taxonomy of software exporting nations. Software Process Improvements (SPI) practices can play their part to overcome problem of Pakistan software industry but we also suffer in implementation of these standard practices. The core aim of this study is to identify the main barriers of Software Process Improvement (SPI) best practices in term of CMMI model in Pakistan. Pakistan based software development organizations suffer with implementation of Software process Areas due to many factor.
Keywords: Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), Software Process Improvement (SPI), Project Planning (PP), Supplier Agreement Management (SAM), Process and Product Quality Assurance (PPQA), Requirements Management (REQM), Project Measurement and Analysis (PMA), Configuration Management (CM)
1. Background
Software industry of country can play a significant role in a country national income and considered as enabler technology for the developing country to play their part in globalization and improve their economic gesture for well-being of their people. India is one of the prime examples who took the opportunity and is considered as "mini superpower (software). Pakistan software industry is considered sharing many factors of Indian Software Industry but it is rated as tier-3 in taxonomy of software export nations. Pakistan Software industry blessed with an excellent infrastructure, skills and talented labour force along with government protection deserved to be at least tier-2 industry like China and Russia if not tier-1 like India [1].
Pakistan Information technology despite having lot of potential of growth and success in international market failed to get expected status of at least tier-2 among the taxonomy of software exporting nations. Pakistan software industry failed attains desired level of status in the international market place. Among many other reasons one is that industry have paid little attention to quality assurance and improvements activities especially in process areas. Many issues, problems and barriers block the way of organization to the efforts of process improvements and implementation of any standards like CMMI model for this purpose. But due to many reasons, Pakistan software industry failed to progress and achieve the expected portion of...