The software engineering laboratory: an operational software experience factory
ICSE '92 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering
Software Development
Software improvements in an international company
ICSE '93 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Software Engineering
Software Process Improvement at Hughes Aircraft
IEEE Software
Process Improvement and the Corporate Balance Sheet
IEEE Software
Software quality and the Capability Maturity Model
Communications of the ACM
SIGCSE '99 The proceedings of the thirtieth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Modelling the Likelihood of Software Process Improvement: An Exploratory Study
Empirical Software Engineering
Software Process Improvement Motivators: An Analysis using Multidimensional Scaling
Empirical Software Engineering
Software Process Improvement Problems in Twelve Software Companies: An Empirical Analysis
Empirical Software Engineering
How Software Process Improvement Helped Motorola
IEEE Software
Improving Software Process Improvement
IEEE Software
A Taxonomy to Compare SPI Frameworks
EWSPT '01 Proceedings of the 8th European Workshop on Software Process Technology
A quantitative and qualitative analysis of factors affecting software processes
Journal of Systems and Software
Information and Management
A maturity model for the implementation of software process improvement: an empirical study
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue: The new context for software engineering education and training
Requirements Engineering and Downstream Software Development: Findings from a Case Study
Empirical Software Engineering
An Empirical Investigation of the Key Factors for Success in Software Process Improvement
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Using an expert panel to validate a requirements process improvement model
Journal of Systems and Software
Experiences of applying SPC techniques to software development processes
Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering
Requirements engineering: In search of the dependent variables
Information and Software Technology
A practitioner's guide to light weight software process assessment and improvement planning
Journal of Systems and Software
Capturing business benefits from process improvement: four fallacies and what to do about them
Proceedings of the 1st international workshop on Business impact of process improvements
Situational maturity models as instrumental artifacts for organizational design
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology
Empirical evaluation of selected best practices in implementation of software process improvement
Information and Software Technology
Process improvement for small firms: An evaluation of the RAPID assessment-based method
Information and Software Technology
Framework to evaluate software process improvement in small organizations
ICSP'08 Proceedings of the Software process, 2008 international conference on Making globally distributed software development a success story
Software Process Improvement as organizational change: A metaphorical analysis of the literature
Journal of Systems and Software
Implementing software process improvement initiatives: an empirical study
PROFES'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
Software process improvement: a road to success
PROFES'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
A survey of CMM/CMMI implementation in china
SPW'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Unifying the Software Process Spectrum
Information and Software Technology
Motivators of software process improvement: an analysis of vietnamese practitioners' views
EASE'07 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
Prescription, description, reflection: the shape of the software process improvement field
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
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The capability maturity model (CMM) for software has become very influential as a basis for software process improvement (SPI). Most of the evidence to date showing the results of these efforts has consisted of case studies. We present a systematic survey of organizations that have undertaken CMM-based SPI to get more representative results. We found evidence that process maturity is in fact associated with better organizational performance, and that software process appraisals are viewed, in retrospect, as extremely valuable and accurate guides for the improvement effort. The path was not always smooth, however, and efforts generally took longer and cost more than expected. A number of factors that distinguished highly successful from unsuccessful efforts are identified. Most of these factors are under management control, suggesting that a number of specific management decisions are likely to have a major impact on the success of the effort.