Software quality and the Capability Maturity Model
Communications of the ACM
How Software Process Improvement Helped Motorola
IEEE Software
European experiences with software process improvement
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Software engineering
Adopting the SW-CMM in a Small IT Organization
IEEE Software
Effective test metrics for test strategy evolution
CASCON '04 Proceedings of the 2004 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
Agility in a small software firm: a sense-and-respond analysis
International Journal of Business Information Systems
Social networks in software process improvement
Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice
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
Assessment methodology for software process improvement in small organizations
Information and Software Technology
Do small IT firms benefit from higher process capability?
Communications of the ACM
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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Software process improvement has been a hot topic within the software industry for numerous years. Its high profile has been partly due to the introduction and industry acceptance of standard improvement models, most notably the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) developed by the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. To this end, a small organization must minimize the limitations of its smaller size and maximize the benefits inherent in its culture. In this article, the authors describe an approach to SPI that has been used successfully in an organization of approximately 150 software engineers. The authors believe their approach to process improvement has produced a noticeable shift in attitudes toward the quality system. They claim that process improvement is now seen as a living thing that constantly evolves. Thus, although not everyone agrees with all aspects of the quality system, people now are far more willing than in the past to make constructive suggestions.