Framework to evaluate software process improvement in small organizations

  • Authors:
  • Pedro E. Colla;Jorge Marcelo Montagna

  • Affiliations:
  • EDS, ASFO, Argentina and Facultad Regional Santa Fé, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional;INGAR, CIDISI, FRSF, UTN

  • Venue:
  • ICSP'08 Proceedings of the Software process, 2008 international conference on Making globally distributed software development a success story
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Organizations of all sizes understand the benefits to consider SoftwareProcess Improvements (SPI) investments, still many of them and in particular thesmaller ones are reluctant to embrace this kind of initiatives. A systemic model ispresented in this article as a tool aiming aiming to provide an initial understandingover the behavior of the different organizational variables involved and theircomplex interactions within a SPI effort, their contribution to the improvement effort,the resulting value sensitivity to model parameters, the systemic relations atlarge and the limits derived from the holistic interaction of all in order to be usedas a scenario analysis tool to identify the SPI strategies which best suit a given organizationbusiness context thru the maximization of the value obtained from theinvestment.