Best Practices to Achieve CMMI Level 2 Configuration Management Process Area through VSS tool

Over the past years, the capability maturity model (CMM) and capability maturity model integration (CMMI) have been broadly used for assessing organizational maturity and process capability throughout the world. However, the rapid pace of change in information technology has caused increasing frustration to the heavyweight plans, specifications, and other documentation imposed by contractual inertia and maturity model compliance criteria. In light of that, configuration management methodologies have been adopted to tackle this challenge. The aim of our paper is to present mapping between CMMI and one of the SCM tool VSS. It shows how VSS addresses the Configuration Management Process Areas of CMMI and help in achieving all the goals which are defined at CMMI level 2 Configuration process areas. This is useful for organizations that have their plan-driven process based on the CMMI model and are planning to improve its processes toward agility or to help organizations to define a new project management framework based on both CMMI and configuration practices.