AIM – ability improvement model

Authors:
Jan Pries-Heje;Jørn Johansen
Affiliations:
Department of Design and Use of IT, IT University Copenhagen, Copenhagen S, Denmark;Focusgroup IT-Processes, DELTA, Hørsholm, Denmark
Venue:
EuroSPI'05 Proceedings of the 12th European conference on Software Process Improvement
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Too many improvement and innovation projects fail. We have studied characteristics of successful and failed projects. From this study we derived 19 parameters that influence success and failure. We used the parameters to build an Ability Improvement Model (AIM), which is a model that can be used to measure an organizations or a projects ability to succeed with improvement. After having build AIM we tested it in real life in a large organization, learned from the experience and improved the model. Then we tested it again in two organizations with promising results. In the paper we report on the considerations and research behind AIM. Finally we describe the method, and how the model can be used in practice.