What small business and small organizations say about the CMM: experience report
ICSE '94 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Software engineering
Thinking objectively: software engineering in the small
Communications of the ACM
Validating the ISO/IEC 15504 measures of software development process capability
Journal of Systems and Software
Experiences in the Application of Software Process Improvement in SMES
Software Quality Control
The Software Process: Modelling and Technology
Software Process: Principles, Methodology, Technology
Practical Software Process Improvement-The IMPACT Project
ASWEC '01 Proceedings of the 13th Australian Conference on Software Engineering
Characterizing a software process maturity model for small organizations
ACM SIGICE Bulletin
An Empirical Investigation of the Key Factors for Success in Software Process Improvement
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Helping Small Companies Assess Software Processes
IEEE Software
A unified model for the implementation of both ISO 9001:2000 and CMMI by ISO-certified organizations
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue: Selected papers from the 11th Asia Pacific software engineering conference (APSEC 2004)
An exploratory study of why organizations do not adopt CMMI
Journal of Systems and Software
Scientific research ontology to support systematic review in software engineering
Advanced Engineering Informatics
A Systematic Review of Software Development Cost Estimation Studies
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A Systematic Review of Theory Use in Software Engineering Experiments
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Systematic review: Systematic review of organizational motivations for adopting CMM-based SPI
Information and Software Technology
Key processes to start software process improvement in small companies
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing
State of the art for risk management in software acquisition
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Identifying high perceived value practices of CMMI level 2: An empirical study
Information and Software Technology
A Process for Driving Process Improvement in VSEs
ICSP '09 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Process: Trustworthy Software Development Processes
Systematic literature reviews in software engineering - A tertiary study
Information and Software Technology
Assessment methodology for software process improvement in small organizations
Information and Software Technology
Mapping CMMI-DEV maturity levels to ISO/IEC 15504 capability profiles
TELE-INFO'10 Proceedings of the 9th WSEAS international conference on Telecommunications and informatics
Using Scrum to guide the execution of software process improvement in small organizations
Journal of Systems and Software
Refining the systematic literature review process--two participant-observer case studies
Empirical Software Engineering
Challenges and improvements in distributed software development: a systematic review
Advances in Software Engineering
Comparison of maturity levels in CMMI-DEV and ISO/IEC 15504
AMERICAN-MATH'11/CEA'11 Proceedings of the 2011 American conference on applied mathematics and the 5th WSEAS international conference on Computer engineering and applications
Comparing ISO/IEC 12207 and CMMI-DEV: towards a mapping of ISO/IEC 15504-7
WOSQ'09 Proceedings of the Seventh ICSE conference on Software quality
REFSQ'11 Proceedings of the 17th international working conference on Requirements engineering: foundation for software quality
Do software process improvements lead to ISO 9126 architectural quality factor improvement
Proceedings of the 8th international workshop on Software quality
IT Service Management Process Improvement based on ISO/IEC 15504: A systematic review
Information and Software Technology
Requirements and constructors for tailoring software processes: a systematic literature review
Software Quality Control
Software process improvement success factors for small and medium Web companies: A qualitative study
Information and Software Technology
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
The influence of SPI on business success in software SMEs: An empirical study
Journal of Systems and Software
Information and Software Technology
Micro-business behavior patterns associated with components in a requirements approach
Proceedings of the Second Edition of the International Workshop on Experiences and Empirical Studies in Software Modelling
Practical experiences in modelling software engineering practices: The project patterns approach
Software Quality Control
A maturity model for the Spanish software industry based on ISO standards
Computer Standards & Interfaces
Critical success factors taxonomy for software process deployment
Software Quality Control
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Small and medium enterprises are a very important cog in the gears of the world economy. The software industry in most countries is composed of an industrial scheme that is made up mainly of small and medium software enterprises--SMEs. To strengthen these types of organizations, efficient Software Engineering practices are needed--practices which have been adapted to their size and type of business. Over the last two decades, the Software Engineering community has expressed special interest in software process improvement (SPI) in an effort to increase software product quality, as well as the productivity of software development. However, there is a widespread tendency to make a point of stressing that the success of SPI is only possible for large companies. In this article, a systematic review of published case studies on the SPI efforts carried out in SMEs is presented. Its objective is to analyse the existing approaches towards SPI which focus on SMEs and which report a case study carried out in industry. A further objective is that of discussing the significant issues related to this area of knowledge, and to provide an up-to-date state of the art, from which innovative research activities can be thought of and planned.