Communications of the ACM
The Process Workshop: A Tool to Define Electronic Process Guides in Small Software Companies
ASWEC '04 Proceedings of the 2004 Australian Software Engineering Conference
METRICS '04 Proceedings of the Software Metrics, 10th International Symposium
The Impact of Process Workshop Involvement on the Use of an Electronic Process Guide: A Case Study
EUROMICRO '05 Proceedings of the 31st EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications
Project web and electronic process guide as software process improvement
EuroSPI'05 Proceedings of the 12th European conference on Software Process Improvement
Investigating factors affecting the usability of software process descriptions
ICSP'08 Proceedings of the Software process, 2008 international conference on Making globally distributed software development a success story
Project web and electronic process guide as software process improvement
EuroSPI'05 Proceedings of the 12th European conference on Software Process Improvement
Improving by involving: a case study in a small software company
EuroSPI'06 Proceedings of the 13th European conference on Software Process Improvement
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Software companies have to identify and manage numerous linked processes to function effectively. We describe how a medium-sized software company improved their software development methodology through implementing an electronic process guide. We discuss how involvement in creating an electronic process guide through process workshops influences the use of the guide over time. We have found that the workshop participators were more positive, and had a higher degree of use. Processes developed by the stakeholders themselves seem to be a perfect starting point when introducing a process guide. An evolutionary introduction of the guide created a high and continuous focus on software process improvement in the whole organization. We also found that integrating the existing administrative systems and tools supporting project work with the process guide increased its usefulness.