Communications of the ACM
Augmenting Experience Reports with Lightweight Postmortem Reviews
PROFES '01 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement
Proceedings of the 9th European software engineering conference held jointly with 11th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
An Empirical Investigation of the Key Factors for Success in Software Process Improvement
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
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
Postmortem reviews: purpose and approaches in software engineering
Information and Software Technology
Project web and electronic process guide as software process improvement
EuroSPI'05 Proceedings of the 12th European conference on Software Process Improvement
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One way of implementing Software Process Improvement (SPI) is to empower employees to carry out decisions made by management. An alternative way is to invite developers and project leaders to participate in all phases of planning and implementing SPI projects. Such participation has always been a central goal and one of the pillars of organization development and change, and has also been shown to be one of the factors with the strongest influence on SPI success. However, there are few studies reporting how participation can be done in practice in software companies doing SPI. In this paper, we describe how long-term participation can be realized in various SPI initiatives using several participation techniques like search conferences, survey feedback, autonomous work groups, quality circles, and learning meetings. The research has been carried out in a small Norwegian software company called Kongsberg Spacetec, over a period of eight years.