Software creativity
Coordination in software development
Communications of the ACM
What small business and small organizations say about the CMM: experience report
ICSE '94 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Software engineering
The business of software: the laws of software process
Communications of the ACM
Future Organizational Design
Secrets of Software Success: Management Insights from 100 Software Firms around the World
Secrets of Software Success: Management Insights from 100 Software Firms around the World
An Instrument for Assessing Software Measurement Programs
Empirical Software Engineering
An Instrument for Measuring the Key Factors of Successin Software Process Improvement
Empirical Software Engineering
Improvisation in Small Software Organizations
IEEE Software
Rapid software development through team collocation
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Adopting the SW-CMM in a Small IT Organization
IEEE Software
An Empirical Investigation of the Key Factors for Success in Software Process Improvement
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Encouraging Self-Organization: Reflections on a Quality Improvement Workshop
EUROMICRO '05 Proceedings of the 31st EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications
PROMEP: a metamodel for define, implement and improve the project management processes in SMES
SE'07 Proceedings of the 25th conference on IASTED International Multi-Conference: Software Engineering
Web-based applications development in small firms
SEPADS'07 Proceedings of the 6th WSEAS International Conference on Software Engineering, Parallel and Distributed Systems
Uptake of modeling practices in SMES: initial results from an industrial survey
Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on Models in software engineering
Some lessons learned in conducting software engineering surveys in china
Proceedings of the Second ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement
Software Process Improvement Methodologies for Small and Medium Enterprises
PROFES '08 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
Issues in the implementation of software process improvement project in Malaysia
WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications
Identifying some important success factors in adopting agile software development practices
Journal of Systems and Software
Investigating the role of CMMI with expanding company size for small- to medium-sized enterprises
Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Actual vs. perceived effect of software engineering practices in the Italian industry
Journal of Systems and Software
SPI success factors within product usability evaluation
Journal of Systems and Software
A competency framework for the stakeholders of a software process improvement initiative
Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Software and Systems Process
Software process improvement: a road to success
PROFES'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
Finding and ranking research directions for software testing
EuroSPI'05 Proceedings of the 12th European conference on Software Process Improvement
Software process improvement success factors for small and medium Web companies: A qualitative study
Information and Software Technology
Improving by involving: a case study in a small software company
EuroSPI'06 Proceedings of the 13th European conference on Software Process Improvement
What works for whom, where, when, and why?: on the role of context in empirical software engineering
Proceedings of the ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement
SPI with lightweight software process modeling in a small software company
EuroSPI'07 Proceedings of the 14th European conference on Software Process Improvement
Assessing the open source development processes using OMM
Advances in Software Engineering
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Existing software engineering and organization development literature acknowledges that there are fundamental operational differences between small and large organizations. Despite this recognition, there has been no attempt to verify whether small and large software organizations implement software process improvement (SPI) programs differently in order to advance their businesses.This study examines whether an organization's size affects its SPI implementation strategy and the degree of SPI success. Based on an extensive literature review of critical factors of quality management, organizational learning, and SPI, a survey questionnaire was developed and data on the implementation of six organizational factors and the resulting organizational performance was collected through a mail survey of 120 software organizations. The findings show that small organizations reported that they implement SPI elements as effectively as large organizations, and in turn, achieve high organizational performance. The main lesson to be learned from this study is that to implement SPI at least as effectively as their large counterparts, small software organizations should capitalize on their relative strengths in employee participation and exploration of new knowledge.