Software system testing and quality assurance
Software system testing and quality assurance
What small business and small organizations say about the CMM: experience report
ICSE '94 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Software engineering
A Discipline for Software Engineering
A Discipline for Software Engineering
Handbook of Software Quality Assurance
Handbook of Software Quality Assurance
TAPISTRY—A Software Process Improvement Approach Tailored for Small Enterprises
Software Quality Control
Introduction to the team software process(sm)
Introduction to the team software process(sm)
Investigating the role of CMMI with expanding company size for small- to medium-sized enterprises
Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice
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The paper presents principles and activities enhancing software maturity (SM). They have been specially selected and trimmed to be reasonably applicable in European small and medium software enterprises (SMSE). The term SM "principle" denotes a more general concept or pattern of behaviour, whereas an "activity" is an actual practice. SM principles and SM activities are based on an empirical assessment of the characteristics and needs of projects in SMSE. The resulting set of principles and activities is a graded and weighted mix of existing best practices in investigated SMSE as well as of customizing mainstream quality management (QM) methodology based on the special circumstances found in SMSE. The paper targets software engineers and project managers. Nevertheless the principles and activities shown are also valid for larger organisations, which have been resistant to serious QM, as a sort of "minimum QM kit".