An analysis of SEI software process assessment results: 1987–1991
ICSE '93 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Software Engineering
What motivates Egyptian IS managers and personnel: some preliminary results
SIGCPR '97 Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research
The realities of software technology payoffs
Communications of the ACM
Why don’t they practice what we preach?
Annals of Software Engineering - Special issue on software engineering education
Telcordia Technologies: The Journey to High Maturity
IEEE Software
Software Process Improvement Motivators: An Analysis using Multidimensional Scaling
Empirical Software Engineering
Software Process Improvement Problems in Twelve Software Companies: An Empirical Analysis
Empirical Software Engineering
A maturity model for the implementation of software process improvement: an empirical study
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue: The new context for software engineering education and training
Studying Software Engineers: Data Collection Techniques for Software Field Studies
Empirical Software Engineering
Software process improvement: it's a journey, not a destination
Communications of the ACM
Journal of Systems and Software
An exploratory study of why organizations do not adopt CMMI
Journal of Systems and Software
Company-Wide Implementation of Metrics for Early Software Fault Detection
ICSE '07 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Software Engineering
Systematic review: Systematic review of organizational motivations for adopting CMM-based SPI
Information and Software Technology
A defect-driven process for software quality improvement
Proceedings of the Second ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement
Identifying high perceived value practices of CMMI level 2: An empirical study
Information and Software Technology
Overcoming the First Hurdle: Why Organizations Do Not Adopt CMMI
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Time as symbolic currency in knowledge work
Information and Organization
Gauging acceptance of software metrics: Comparing perspectives of managers and developers
ESEM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 3rd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
Empirical validation of the Classic Change Curve on a software technology change project
Information and Software Technology
Information and Management
Software Process Improvement barriers: A cross-cultural comparison
Information and Software Technology
Software Process Improvement as organizational change: A metaphorical analysis of the literature
Journal of Systems and Software
How to welcome software process improvement and avoid resistance to change
ICSP'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on New modeling concepts for today's software processes: software process
Two case studies on small enterprise motivation and readiness for CMMI
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Product Focused Software
A competency framework for the stakeholders of a software process improvement initiative
Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Software and Systems Process
Understanding the importance of roles in architecture-related process improvement: a case study
PROFES'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement
Changing role of SPI – opportunities and challenges of process modeling
EuroSPI'06 Proceedings of the 13th European conference on Software Process Improvement
Analysis of bug fixing processes using program slicing metrics
PROFES'10 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
The influence of SPI on business success in software SMEs: An empirical study
Journal of Systems and Software
Organisational readiness and software process improvement
PROFES'07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
De-motivators of software process improvement: an analysis of vietnamese practitioners' views
PROFES'07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
SPI with lightweight software process modeling in a small software company
EuroSPI'07 Proceedings of the 14th European conference on Software Process Improvement
EuroSPI'07 Proceedings of the 14th European conference on Software Process Improvement
International Journal of Knowledge Management
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Methodology Mashups: An Exploration of Processes Used to Maintain Software
Journal of Management Information Systems
Tacit knowledge formalization to support the adoption process of software quality models
IUKM'13 Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modelling and Decision Making
Information and Software Technology
Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering
Critical success factors taxonomy for software process deployment
Software Quality Control
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We present a study of software practitioners' de-motivators for software process improvement (SPI). The aim of this study is to understand the nature of the issues that de-motivate software practitioners for SPI, so that SPI managers can better manage these de-motivators. This study compares what the SPI literature reports as the factors that hinder SPI success with software practitioners' perception of the factors that de-motivate them. Focus groups are used to elicit the perceptions of over 200 software practitioners. Our findings show that software practitioners confirm what the literature reports as the major issues that de-motivate them for SPI. These issues are related to resistance to change, lack of evidence, imposed SPI initiatives, resource constraints and commercial pressures. Our findings also show that there are differences in de-motivators for SPI across staff groups and that these differences are related to the role that software practitioners have in software development generally. We offer these findings as insight to aid SPI managers to design more targeted SPI strategies.