Qualitative Methods in Empirical Studies of Software Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know
Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know
De-motivators for software process improvement: an analysis of practitioners' views
Journal of Systems and Software
Re-examining fundamental GIS implementation constructs through the grounded theory approach
Telematics and Informatics
Information and Software Technology
Investigating software process in practice: A grounded theory perspective
Journal of Systems and Software
Investigating the use of "Grounded Theory" in information systems research
Proceedings of the 2008 annual research conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists on IT research in developing countries: riding the wave of technology
CASCON '08 Proceedings of the 2008 conference of the center for advanced studies on collaborative research: meeting of minds
Exploring language in software process elicitation: A grounded theory approach
ESEM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 3rd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
EuroSPI'07 Proceedings of the 14th European conference on Software Process Improvement
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The successful implementation of Software Process Improvement SPI depends not only on the abilities of practitioners to identify processes modifications that may help to increase organizations capabilities to develop software, but also abilities to overcome barriers that can jeopardize the organizational change process provoked by SPI initiatives. The literature reports show that SPI practitioners must have experienced skills to overcome common social-cultural factors that pose as critical barriers for successfully implementing SPI. Nevertheless, there is no consensus in the area about what the critical success factors are for conducting SPI implementation initiatives. This work presents a study based on Grounded Theory methodology to acquire knowledge about SPI critical success factors. The main product of this study is a theoretical knowledge framework consisting of a set of inter-related categories grounded on a set of propositions that explains the phenomenon associated to the success of SPI implementation initiatives.