Qualitative Methods in Empirical Studies of Software Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
De-motivators for software process improvement: an analysis of practitioners' views
Journal of Systems and Software
An exploratory study of why organizations do not adopt CMMI
Journal of Systems and Software
Information and Software Technology
Investigating software process in practice: A grounded theory perspective
Journal of Systems and Software
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
Applying Grounded Theory to Understand Software Process Improvement Implementation
QUATIC '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Seventh International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology
EuroSPI'07 Proceedings of the 14th European conference on Software Process Improvement
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Despite the fact that organizations recognize the importance of implementing software process improvement (SPI) to enhance software development capabilities, recent studies show that many organizations still struggle to successfully implement SPI. These studies demonstrate that most SPI initiatives fail due to their incapacity to overcome social---cultural critical barriers, such as lack of motivation and higher management support. Therefore, the accurate understanding of the context where SPI occurs may facilitate the development of more efficient SPI implementation strategies aiming to overcome those difficulties. The objective of this work was to present a Grounded Theory-based study that investigated SPI implementation initiatives conducted by Brazilian software organizations. The main product of this study is a theoretical framework that tries and explains the phenomenon associated to the success of SPI implementation initiatives. The theoretical framework constituted a set of interrelated SPI domain entities supported by a set of propositions assessed by experienced Brazilian SPI consultants. We expect that such theoretical framework can facilitate SPI implementation by providing better understating of the dependency relationships among critical success factors that may jeopardize SPI initiatives.