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above average for responses regarding the “people” construct. In addition, both
people contribution and project management skills were found to be signicant
vis-à-vis IS quality (shown in Table 8.4).
Although process maturity practices had the greatest inuence on IS quality, it
is shown in Table 8.4 that only 3 out of 10 CMMI practices were found to be sig-
nicant vis-à-vis IS quality. ese were verication merged with validation, orga-
nization process focus, and organization process denition. A possible explanation
why these three practices were found signicant could be attributed to the emphasis
being placed in the literature regarding the importance of organizations following
project activities l