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Even though the possession of a high CMM level undoubtedly implies prestige and competitive advantages for a software development organisation, its attainment may imply a considerable economic burden because of potentially necessary audits. It is therefore very interesting to minimise the costs by paying only for the truly indispensable audits. This article proposes a Knowledge-Based System that makes it possible to evaluate an organisation at a determined CMM level and as such limit the services of an auditor to those cases in which the system’s response complies with the requested CMM level and the necessary associated skills. This clearly implies an important cost reduction for audits with a negative result. The design of this system is based on the CommonKADS methodology, and its implementation was carried out with the Clips tool.
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Andrade, J., Ares, J., García, R., Rodríguez, S., Seoane, M., Suárez, S. (2008). A Knowledge-Based System for CMM Evaluation. In: Nguyen, N.T., Katarzyniak, R. (eds) New Challenges in Applied Intelligence Technologies. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 134. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79355-7_18
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