Applied multivariate statistics for the social sciences
Applied multivariate statistics for the social sciences
Software metrics: establishing a company-wide program
Software metrics: establishing a company-wide program
Managing the software process
A Practical View of Software Measurement and Implementation Experiences Within Motorola
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on software measurement principles, techniques, and environments
Process innovation: reengineering work through information technology
Process innovation: reengineering work through information technology
A quantitative approach to software management: the AMI handbook
A quantitative approach to software management: the AMI handbook
A systematic survey of CMM experience and results
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Software engineering
Managing technical people: innovation, teamwork, and the software process
Managing technical people: innovation, teamwork, and the software process
Successful software process improvement
Successful software process improvement
Software process improvement: practical guidelines for business susccess
Software process improvement: practical guidelines for business susccess
Commitment development in software process improvement: critical misconceptions
ICSE '01 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering
An empirical study on the utility of formal routines to transfer knowledge and experience
Proceedings of the 8th European software engineering conference held jointly with 9th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
The Pursuit of Organizational Intelligence: Decisions and Learning in Organizations
The Pursuit of Organizational Intelligence: Decisions and Learning in Organizations
Software Metrics: Measurement for Software Process Improvement
Software Metrics: Measurement for Software Process Improvement
Software Metrics: A Rigorous and Practical Approach
Software Metrics: A Rigorous and Practical Approach
Feedback and Organization Development: Using Databased Methods
Feedback and Organization Development: Using Databased Methods
Better Software Practice for Business Benefit: Principles and Experiences
Better Software Practice for Business Benefit: Principles and Experiences
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering
Modelling the Likelihood of Software Process Improvement: An Exploratory Study
Empirical Software Engineering
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
Software Process Improvement at Hughes Aircraft
IEEE Software
Process Improvement and the Corporate Balance Sheet
IEEE Software
Software Quality in Consumer Electronics Products
IEEE Software
Improvisation in Small Software Organizations
IEEE Software
What Makes Measuring Software So Hard?
IEEE Software
Software Process Improvement via ISO 9000? Results of Two Surveys Among European Software Houses
HICSS '96 Proceedings of the 29th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences Volume 1: Software Technology and Architecture
Proceedings of the 9th European software engineering conference held jointly with 11th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Process Improvement in Practice: A Handbook for It Companies (The Kluwer International Series in Software Engineering, 9)
Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, and Estimates
Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, and Estimates
Software processes and project performance
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Information technology and its organizational impact
The Future of Empirical Methods in Software Engineering Research
FOSE '07 2007 Future of Software Engineering
WoSQ '07 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Software Quality
Research directions in verification & validation process improvement
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Information and Software Technology
Evaluating ERP projects using DEA and regression analysis
International Journal of Business Information Systems
Software process improvement in small and medium software enterprises: a systematic review
Software Quality Control
A new calibration for Function Point complexity weights
Information and Software Technology
Cultural influences and differences in software process improvement programs
Proceedings of the 6th international workshop on Software quality
Strategic alignment of software process improvement programs using QFD
Proceedings of the 1st international workshop on Business impact of process improvements
Information and Software Technology
Software Process and Product Measurement
How Does a Measurement Programme Evolve in Software Organizations?
PROFES '08 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
Empirical evaluation of selected best practices in implementation of software process improvement
Information and Software Technology
Evaluating the Perceived Effect of Software Engineering Practices in the Italian Industry
ICSP '09 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Process: Trustworthy Software Development Processes
Identifying some important success factors in adopting agile software development practices
Journal of Systems and Software
Determinants of software quality: A survey of information systems project managers
Information and Software Technology
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
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
Information and Software Technology
SPI success factors within product usability evaluation
Journal of Systems and Software
Software Process Improvement as organizational change: A metaphorical analysis of the literature
Journal of Systems and Software
Software process improvement success factors for small and medium Web companies: A qualitative study
Information and Software Technology
Research directions for enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects
International Journal of Business Information Systems
Current practices of measuring quality in finnish software engineering industry
EuroSPI'06 Proceedings of the 13th European conference on Software Process Improvement
Improving by involving: a case study in a small software company
EuroSPI'06 Proceedings of the 13th European conference on Software Process Improvement
Defining and monitoring strategically aligned software improvement goals
PROFES'10 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
Goal alignment in process improvement
Journal of Systems and Software
Flexibility in research designs in empirical software engineering
EASE'08 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
Software development improvement with SFIM
PROFES'07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
PROFES'07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
Defining software processes through process workshops: a multicase study
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
Journal of Systems and Software
Critical success factors taxonomy for software process deployment
Software Quality Control
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Understanding how to implement software process improvement (SPI) successfully is arguably the most challenging issue facing the SPI field today. The SPI literature contains many case studies of successful companies and descriptions of their SPI programs. However, the research efforts to date are limited and inconclusive and without adequate theoretical and psychometric justification. This paper extends and integrates models from prior research by performing an empirical investigation of the key factors for success in SPI. A quantitative survey of 120 software organizations was designed to test the conceptual model and hypotheses of the study. The results indicate that success depends critically on six organizational factors, which explained more than 50 percent of the variance in the outcome variable. The main contribution of the paper is to increase the understanding of the influence of organizational issues by empirically showing that they are at least as important as technology for succeeding with SPI and, thus, to provide researchers and practitioners with important new insights regarding the critical factors of success in SPI.