Schlumberger's Software Improvement Program
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Software process improvement experience in the DP/MIS function: experience report
ICSE '94 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Software engineering
What small business and small organizations say about the CMM: experience report
ICSE '94 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Software engineering
Successful software process improvement
Successful software process improvement
Toward computational support for software process improvement activities
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Software engineering
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Software engineering
Telcordia Technologies: The Journey to High Maturity
IEEE Software
Proceedings of the 9th European software engineering conference held jointly with 11th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Overcoming the First Hurdle: Why Organizations Do Not Adopt CMMI
ICSP '09 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Process: Trustworthy Software Development Processes
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
Software Process Improvement as organizational change: A metaphorical analysis of the literature
Journal of Systems and Software
The optimization of success probability for software projects using genetic algorithms
Journal of Systems and Software
Software process improvement success factors for small and medium Web companies: A qualitative study
Information and Software Technology
Do small IT firms benefit from higher process capability?
Communications of the ACM
Assessing the open source development processes using OMM
Advances in Software Engineering
Methodology Mashups: An Exploration of Processes Used to Maintain Software
Journal of Management Information Systems
Critical success factors taxonomy for software process deployment
Software Quality Control
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The software development global market is opening its doors to more countries, giving small organizations an opportunity to benefit from more competitive conditions. A requisite for being competitive is to adopt internationally accepted software process practices. Small organizations trying to start their own effort must carefully identify how their environment affects an improvement initiative.The authors report on the adoption of SW-CMM Level 2 in Link, a Chilean organization. This was a software process improvement initiative led by one of the authors. They explain Link's organizational environment, the initiative performed, and the factors that affected the initiative. They found a strong relationship between organizational environment and the initiative's success factors; specifically, that Link's small size helped the SW-CMM's adoption.