AGILE CMMI from SMEs perspective

CMMI has been well accepted by the world as a standard for project development process control, quality improvement, and capacity evaluation. More and more companies are involved in the CMMI certifications rush. However, to most of them, CMMI is a very challenging goal. CMMI becomes critical to seek a suitable way to promote the competence of the small- and mid-sized companies in worldwide competition. This research suggests that small and mid sized companies can adopt Agile Development Methodologies (ADM) while following the CMMI standard if obtain a new additional values, thus they can get a new competence value in their environments.