How Software Process Improvement Helped Motorola
IEEE Software
A Longitudinal Study of Software Process Improvement
IEEE Software
Process Improvement in Four Small Software Companies
ASWEC '01 Proceedings of the 13th Australian Conference on Software Engineering
The impact of software process improvement on quality: in theory and practice
Information and Management
A quantitative and qualitative analysis of factors affecting software processes
Journal of Systems and Software
De-motivators for software process improvement: an analysis of practitioners' views
Journal of Systems and Software
Perceptions of software quality: a pilot study
Software Quality Control
A maturity model for the implementation of software process improvement: an empirical study
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue: The new context for software engineering education and training
Systematic review: Systematic review of organizational motivations for adopting CMM-based SPI
Information and Software Technology
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The Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) is a structured representation of process areas that can support an organization's software development competency. CMMI can be used as a framework for Software Process Improvement (SPI). Some large organizations have received productivity and product quality benefits from achieving high "levels" of CMMI. However, CMMI is sometimes thought to be difficult to apply to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), and its relevance to SMEs is not yet clear. This paper describes two case studies of small enterprises that adopted CMMI for SPI. We examine their motivation for SPI, and also their organizational readiness for SPI. The two companies in our case study are similar, but have contrasting reasons for adopting SPI. Company A adopted CMMI for marketing reasons, and Company B listed many reasons. Although a valid business rationale, marketing reasons are usually maligned within the SPI community. Nonetheless, Company A had the highest level of readiness. We suggest that having clear goals for SPI is critical, even if those goals are not stereotypical.