Experiences in the Application of Software Process Improvement in SMES

  • Authors:

  • Jose A. Calvo-Manzano Villalón;Gonzalo Cuevas Agustín;Tomás San Feliu Gilabert;Antonio De Amescua Seco;Luis García Sánchez;Manuel Pérez Cota

  • Affiliations:

  • Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Facultad de Informática, Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos e Ingeniería del Software, Campus de Montegancedo, 28660 Boadilla ...;Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Facultad de Informática, Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos e Ingeniería del Software, Campus de Montegancedo, 28660 Boadilla ...;Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Facultad de Informática, Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos e Ingeniería del Software, Campus de Montegancedo, 28660 Boadilla ...;Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Departamento de Informática, Avda. de la Universidad, 2911 Leganés, Madrid, Spain;Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Departamento de Informática, Avda. de la Universidad, 2911 Leganés, Madrid, Spain;Universidad de Vigo, Escuela Universitaria de Ingeniería Técnica Industrial, Departamento de Informática, Área de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Rúa Torrecedeira, ...

  • Venue:
  • Software Quality Control
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

During the last few years, many Software Process Improvement methods (SPI) have been presented to increase the quality of products and services provided by a software organization. Current Software Process Improvement (SPI) methods (i.e. ISO 15504, CBA-IPI, …), are difficult to apply to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMES) due to the costs (financial, time, and resource) associated with their application. Also, these methods are principally focused on the assessment stage. This paper presents a new SPI method, called MESOPYME, which main focus is to reduce effort and time on the SPI implementation. This method focuses on the improvement implementation stage, which is based on a concept called Action Package, whose components are described (in Section 2.1.). The results obtained in the application of a Requirements Engineering Action Package in three organizations are also presented.