Social networks in software process improvement
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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
Process assessment issues of the ISO/IEC 29110 emerging standard
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Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Product Focused Software
Software process improvement: a road to success
PROFES'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
Information and Software Technology
SPI with lightweight software process modeling in a small software company
EuroSPI'07 Proceedings of the 14th European conference on Software Process Improvement
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Abstract: For many small software companies, full-scale software process improvement (SPI) initiatives are often out of reach due to prohibitive costs and lack of SPI knowledge. However, to compete in the global market, software developers must improve their productivity, time to market and customer satisfaction. Software Engineering Australia (Qld) sponsored a process improvement program in which 26 of its member companies participated. A RAPID assessment method, based on SPICE (ISO 15504), was developed and applied. This paper presents findings from the RAPID process improvement program as experienced by four small software companies. For each company, the initial assessment findings are presented followed by the outcome of the recommendations. The discussion which follows compares the capability of the four companies and links the findings from this case study to existing literature related to software process improvement success and failure.