Managing the software process
Software process improvement: practical guidelines for business susccess
Software process improvement: practical guidelines for business susccess
Thinking objectively: software process improvement in the small
Communications of the ACM
Knowledge capability and maturity in software management
ACM SIGMIS Database - Special issue on infomration systems: current issues and future changes
SPI Models: What Characteristics are Required for Small Software Development Companies?
Software Quality Control
Experiences in the Application of Software Process Improvement in SMES
Software Quality Control
SPI Models: What Characteristics Are Required for Small Software Development Companies?
ECSQ '02 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Quality
Software Process Improvement in a Small Organization: Difficulties and Suggestions
EWSPT '98 Proceedings of the 6th European Workshop on Software Process Technology
Models and Success Factors of Process Change
PROFES '01 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement
Genre-Based Metadata for Enterprise Document Management
HICSS '00 Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 3 - Volume 3
Process Improvement in Four Small Software Companies
ASWEC '01 Proceedings of the 13th Australian Conference on Software Engineering
Proceedings of the 9th European software engineering conference held jointly with 11th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
De-motivators for software process improvement: an analysis of practitioners' views
Journal of Systems and Software
PRISMS: an Approach to Software Process Improvement for Small to Medium Enterprises
QSIC '03 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Quality Software
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 09
An Empirical Investigation of the Key Factors for Success in Software Process Improvement
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Journal of Systems and Software
Changing role of SPI – opportunities and challenges of process modeling
EuroSPI'06 Proceedings of the 13th European conference on Software Process Improvement
Big Improvements with Small Changes: Improving the Processes of a Small Software Company
PROFES '08 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
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In small growing software companies, it is important to pay attention to software process improvement (SPI) in order to be successful and competitive in both domestic and foreign markets. However, limited resources and lack of knowledge about process culture may hinder the improvement efforts in small companies. In this paper, we present development activities done in a small growing software company in order to establish basis for SPI. Familiarizing to processes and SPI is done by modeling company's processes using a lightweight software process modeling technique. The modeling combined with external consulting provides the company with capability to visualize their processes and to identify the problems in the processes. The improvement activities have been triggered by pointing out the problems. In the presented case, the company has independently implemented quite significant improvements for identified problems by acquiring needed knowledge and by implementing new tools to support workflows.