The popularity of CMM IT project management standards in the context of the condition of informatics branch in Poland between 2007 and 2014

Abstract

The paper is designed to discuss the dynamics of growing popularity of the set of standards applicable to the management of informatics projects, the set in question being referred to as the CMM. The latter is a device the objective of which is to guarantee a high quality level of the software that is produced. The implementation of the CMM, when confirmed by the auditors, became a certificate that is being availed of in the market competition. In view of the fact that in case of public contracts some countries bluntly require the confirming that the CMM is being applied, the global enterprises in informatics branch have to assume adaptation activities in this respect. This tendency gradually reaches also the cooperating parties and sub-contractors of the largest corporations. As a result, in such countries like Poland (where the outsourcing services in programming are rendered) we can observe the degree of convergence between local and global standards. While relying on the data published in the text, we may find that the situation of the IT branch in Poland is strongly conditioned by the global developments. Nevertheless it has also its own specificity. The objective of the paper is to outline the general framework within which there function the enterprises affiliated with the analysed sector in Poland. The image thus arrived at may be confronted with the phenomenon of global and local changes in the dynamics developing in the interest in the CMM standard. This would allow to make an assessment of the degree of the aforementioned convergence and make the analysis of the possible differences in this respect. The paper exploited the data derived from the Warsaw Stock Exchange (the data characterizing the most significant players at the local market) and the resources available at the data bases of the Google Trends internet portal. In the text there may be found numerous illustrations and other empirical data which, in a clear way, successively demonstrate the problems under investigation and emphasize the observations emerging from their analysis. The structure of the paper assumes the use of the drift toward the exploitation of the synthetic data whose purpose is to trace out a broad perspective within which the question raised in the title may be explored. The latter may be explored within the broader research program planned for the future. Such approach would guarantee the discovery of the most essential phenomena that are detectable only when a large scale research is made.