Best practices to achieve CMMI level II configuration process area

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 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 study is to present mapping between CMMI and one of the SCM tool VSS. Visual Source Safe (VSS) is a central library, or database of documents that make up a project. It shows how VSS addresses the Configuration Management Process area of CMMI and helps 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 is planning to improve its processes towards the agility or to help organization to define a new project management framework based on both the CMMI and configuration practices.