Managing the software process
Practical software metrics for project management and process improvement
Practical software metrics for project management and process improvement
Quality software management (vol. 2): first-order measurement
Quality software management (vol. 2): first-order measurement
Assessment and control of software risks
Assessment and control of software risks
The capability maturity model: guidelines for improving the software process
The capability maturity model: guidelines for improving the software process
Successful software process improvement
Successful software process improvement
Process assessment considered wasteful
Communications of the ACM
Rethinking the concept of commitment in software process improvement
Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems
A Critical Look at Software Capability Evaluations
IEEE Software
Enough About Process: What We Need are Heroes
IEEE Software
The Illusory Diffusion of Innovation: An Examination of Assimilation Gaps
Information Systems Research
Successful Process Implementation
IEEE Software
Measurement and Analysis: What Can and Does Go Wrong?
METRICS '04 Proceedings of the Software Metrics, 10th International Symposium
Agile improvement practices in software organizations
European Journal of Information Systems - Including a special section on business agility and diffusion of information technology
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
The IBM large-systems software development process: objectives and direction
IBM Systems Journal
Programming process productivity measurement system for System/370
IBM Systems Journal
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We know from the software process improvement (SPI) literature that new technologies are often acquired, but not deployed. Fichmand and Kemerer call this phenomenon the assimilation gap. Important prerequisites to SPI success are SPI implementation success and SPI initiative progress. This study presents four simple and practical indicators for SPI initiatives to stay focused on deployment and facilitate SPI initiative progress. These practical indicators are easy to gather, manage and evaluate and they provide an organization with useful information to determine the progress of an SPI initiative. The indicators focus on competence build-up, employee capabilities, process adoption and management commitment. The result shows there are simple and practical indicators for tracking and follow-up SPI initiatives' progress to stay focused on deployment and decrease the assimilation gap.