Building a maturity & capability model repository

A complicated and time-consuming phase in the development of Maturity/Capability Models (MCMs) is the identification of existing relevant source models as, currently, information on existing MCMs is provided in very different forms and levels of detail on diverse web sites, publications etc. In this paper, we present our ongoing research on developing a web-based repository to store and provide overview information on MCMs as a continuous knowledge management effort maintained within the Software Process Improvement (SPI) community. Such a centralized repository containing metadata on MCMs is expected to facilitate the identification of relevant models (as well as parts) and provide a systematic basis for the development/evolution or customization of MCMs.