Software Process Improvement In Bangladesh.
Bernard Wong, Sazzad Hasan · Software Engineering Research and Practice · 2006
the process is not understood or the process is not operating at its best. With offshore outsourcing and growing countries like Bangladesh is in a position of exporting their local Information Technology services. However, what is the state of Information Technology in Bangladesh? No documented cases of Bangladesh companies have the maturity of CMM level 3 or above. What are the challenges faced by Information Technology companies in Bangladesh? 2. Current Scenario of Bangladesh in SPI Bangladesh is one of the largest developing countries in the world with a population of more than 135 million. The software industry in Bangladesh has come a long way over the last few decades. In the last five to ten years, a good number of entrepreneurs and talented professionals have come forward to make the industry more dynamic and more vibrant. According to the BASIS (the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services), more than three hundred (300) registered software companies are currently operating in Bangladesh. From them, more than fifty (50) software and IT service companies are exporting their product and services to thirty (30) different countries in the world including USA, Canada, European countries, Middle East, Japan, Australia, South Africa and some of the South East Asian countries (Mashroor 2005). However, it is reported that not a single company has achieved SEI's (Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University, USA) SW-CMM or CMMI level 3, though some of them exercise PSP (Personal Software Process) to improve the quality of their development process (Hossain 2004, p.5). CMM/CMMI level three (3) is generally considered the minimum requirement for a company to be eligible to participate in global software industry. Therefore, it seems that software process and process improvement is not realized properly among the software organizations of Bangladesh. Recently, some companies are claiming that they are on the way of gaining CMM/CMMI level 3 even one foreign company claiming, whose local office is in Bangladesh, it has already achieved CMMI level 3, and it is a good news for software industry in Bangladesh. This scenario would influence software companies to introduce Software Process Improvement program in their organizations. ABSTRACT