Managing the software process
The implementation of expert systems: a survey of successful implementations
ACM SIGMIS Database
IEEE Software
Schlumberger's Software Improvement Program
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Software process improvement: practical guidelines for business susccess
Software process improvement: practical guidelines for business susccess
Qualitative Methods in Empirical Studies of Software Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A Discipline for Software Engineering
A Discipline for Software Engineering
How Software Process Improvement Helped Motorola
IEEE Software
A Longitudinal Study of Software Process Improvement
IEEE Software
Telcordia Technologies: The Journey to High Maturity
IEEE Software
Implementing Software Process Improvement: Two Cases of Technology Transfer
HICSS '00 Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 7 - Volume 7
HICSS '01 Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences ( HICSS-34)-Volume 8 - Volume 8
Critical Success Factors (CSFs) and the Growth of IT in Selected Geographic Regions
HICSS '99 Proceedings of the Thirty-second Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 7 - Volume 7
De-motivators for software process improvement: an analysis of practitioners' views
Journal of Systems and Software
A model for the implementation of software process improvement: A pilot study
QSIC '03 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Quality Software
Perceptions of software quality: a pilot study
Software Quality Control
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
Establishing and maintaining trust in software outsourcing relationships: An empirical investigation
Journal of Systems and Software
Ontology-based intelligent decision support agent for CMMI project monitoring and control
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
A measurement framework for assessing the maturity of requirements engineering process
Software Quality Control
An Empirical Study Identifying High Perceived Value Practices of CMMI Level 2
PROFES '08 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
Identifying high perceived value practices of CMMI level 2: An empirical study
Information and Software Technology
Empirical evaluation of selected best practices in implementation of software process improvement
Information and Software Technology
QoSA'07 Proceedings of the Quality of software architectures 3rd international conference on Software architectures, components, and applications
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
SPLC'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software product lines: going beyond
Assessing PSP effect in training disciplined software development: A Plan-Track-Review model
Information and Software Technology
CDVE'11 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Cooperative design, visualization, and engineering
Implementing software process improvement initiatives: an empirical study
PROFES'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
Software process improvement: a road to success
PROFES'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
An instrument for measuring the maturity of requirements engineering process
PROFES'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement
Trust in software outsourcing relationships: an analysis of vietnamese practitioners' views
EASE'06 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
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
Predicting OSS Development Success: A Data Mining Approach
International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design
Information Resources Management Journal
Critical success factors taxonomy for software process deployment
Software Quality Control
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A number of advances have been made in the development of software process improvement (SPI) standards and models, e.g. Capability Maturity Model (CMM), more recently CMMI, and ISO's SPICE. However, these advances have not been matched by equal advances in the adoption of these standards and models in software development which hasresulted in limited success for many SPI efforts. The current problem with SPI is not a lack of standards or models, but rather a lack of an effective strategy to successfully implement these standards or models. In this paper we have focused on SPI implementation issues and designed three individual components in order to assist SPI practitioners in the design of effective SPI implementation initiatives. We have pulled together individual components under one SPI implementation framework (SPI-IF) using a bottom-up approach already familiar to many practitioners and researchers. The framework is based on the results drawn from SPI literature and an empirical study we have carried out. In the design of SPI-IF, the concept of critical success factors (CSFs) was used and extended. Thirty-four CSF interviews were conducted with Australian practitioners. In addition, 50 research articles (published experience reports and case studies) were also selected and analysed in order to identify factors that play positive or negative roles in SPI implementation. The SPI-IF provides a very practical structure with which to assess and implement SPI implementation initiatives. In order to evaluate SPI-IF, a practical evaluation scheme was undertaken. The evaluation results show that SPI-IF has potential to assist SPI practitioners in the design of effective SPI implementation initiatives. Thus, we recommend organizations to use SPI-IF in order to effectively design SPI implementation initiatives.