With the emergence of Global Software Development as a business model to produce software products rapidly enough to dominate their niches in a globally competitive workplace, there is a need to obtain the deepest possible understanding of global software competitiveness and the leading indicators that permit systematic reasoning about it. An enterprise wishing to advance its global software competitiveness needs a framework to organize these leading indicators and a mechanism to assess its readiness to compete. The Global Software Competitiveness Program is evolving and prototyping such a framework. While the framework rewards those who effectively compete with others, it reserves extreme rewards for those who dominate their niche.
Mere competition is distinguished from competitiveness.
Global competitiveness in software is accomplished by setting the enterprise direction, providing the fuel, and controlling the businesses environment. Over seventy leading indicators selected to support the strategic management of enterprise global software competitiveness form the basis for the Global Software Competitiveness Program. The vision for achieving global software competitiveness is presented as a strategic plan composed of direction setting themes, objectives whose achievement locks in the gains, and leading indicators whose assessment guides improvement. An independent consultant, he focuses on conducting Software Inspections training, directing the National Software Quality Experiment, and conducting Global Software Competitiveness Assessments. The CMMI serves as a single assessment process and process improvement guide supporting an organization's business goals.