CMMI-DEV v1.3 Reference Model in ArchiMate

Reference models allow the verification of existing concepts of a model and how these concepts relate to each other, giving an idea of how a model works. The purpose of this paper is to address the problem of the perceived complexity of Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) by proposing a graphical reference model using ArchiMate as the chosen Enterprise Architecture (EA) modeling language. This paper will focus on the part of CMMI related to the development of both products and services, more known as CMMI-DEV in the version 1.3. With ArchiMate as the EA modeling language, we develop using the Design Science Research Methodology (DSRM) the CMMI-DEV v1.3 reference model to reduce the perceived complexity of the framework by representing their concepts and relationships with graphical concepts of ArchiMate. In this paper, we demonstrate our proposed reference model (artifact) with the use of an EA of an organization and evaluate it with well know techniques to evaluate design science artifacts. The paper concludes with some findings and future work on this topic.