A software workforce assessment model

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2002
Tanrıöver, Ö. Özgür
This thesis develops a software practitioner assessment model based on practices and roles defined in SW-CMM (Software Capability Maturity Model) [Paulk 1995] and knowledge units defined in SWEBOK (Software Engineering Body of Knowledge) [Hillburn et al. 1999] to assess emergent software organizations. The aim behind this model is to provide a remedy for the main shortcomings of current software process assessment methods: fully assessing process and technology but not people. Assessment model development is based on Evaluation Theory Principles thus an explicit and adoptable assessment framework has been established. In order to develop this assessment baseline, we used activities related to roles and knowledge requirements in terms of knowledge units which are scaled according to scales adopted from Blooms knowledge taxonomy. Furthermore; the applicability of the proposed model is corroborated by means of a case study in a small sized software organization. Questionnaires, informal interviews and on the sight observations has been conducted to collect the necessary data.

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Ö. Ö. Tanrıöver, “A software workforce assessment model,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2002.