IEEE Software
An empirical study of communication in code inspections
ICSE '97 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Software engineering
Software quality and the Capability Maturity Model
Communications of the ACM
Qualitative research in information systems
MIS Quarterly
Information systems and qualitative research
Proceedings of the IFIP TC8 WG 8.2 international conference on Information systems and qualitative research
Becoming part of the furniture: the institutionalization of information systems
Proceedings of the IFIP TC8 WG 8.2 international conference on Information systems and qualitative research
Communications of the ACM
An empirical investigation into the adoption of systems development methodologies
Information and Management
Qualitative Methods in Empirical Studies of Software Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Software Process Improvement at Hughes Aircraft
IEEE Software
Process Improvement and the Corporate Balance Sheet
IEEE Software
Toward a Unified Field of SE Research and Practice
IEEE Software
CMMI Guidlines for Process Integration and Product Improvement
CMMI Guidlines for Process Integration and Product Improvement
Software Process Improvement at AlliedSignal Aerospace
HICSS '96 Proceedings of the 29th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences Volume 1: Software Technology and Architecture
SAICSIT '03 Proceedings of the 2003 annual research conference of the South African institute of computer scientists and information technologists on Enablement through technology
Grounded Theory Applied - Studying Information Systems Development Methodologies in Practice
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 08
A Grounded Theory Analysis of E-Collaboration Effects for Distributed Project Management
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 08
Investigating software process in practice: A grounded theory perspective
Journal of Systems and Software
SECSE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering for Computational Science and Engineering
Exploring language in software process elicitation: A grounded theory approach
ESEM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 3rd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
Investigating Agile User-Centered Design in Practice: A Grounded Theory Perspective
USAB '09 Proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering of the Austrian Computer Society on HCI and Usability for e-Inclusion
Organizing self-organizing teams
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 1
Software Process Improvement as organizational change: A metaphorical analysis of the literature
Journal of Systems and Software
Proceedings of the ACM international conference on Object oriented programming systems languages and applications
Using grounded theory to study the human aspects of software engineering
Human Aspects of Software Engineering
The impact of inadequate customer collaboration on self-organizing Agile teams
Information and Software Technology
Information and Software Technology
Qualitative research on software development: a longitudinal case study methodology
Empirical Software Engineering
Using grounded theory to study the experience of software development
Empirical Software Engineering
A case study for prioritizing features in environments with multiple stakeholders
Proceedings of the ACM international conference companion on Object oriented programming systems languages and applications companion
Procedings of the Second Conference on Creativity and Innovation in Design
Software process improvement success factors for small and medium Web companies: A qualitative study
Information and Software Technology
Developing a grounded theory to explain the practices of self-organizing Agile teams
Empirical Software Engineering
International Journal of Knowledge Management
When agile meets the enterprise
Information and Software Technology
Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering
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Software process improvement (SPI) aims to understand the software process as it is used within an organisation and thus drive the implementation of changes to that process to achieve specific goals such as increasing development speed, achieving higher product quality or reducing costs. Accordingly, SPI researchers must be equipped with the methodologies and tools to enable them to look within organisations and understand the state of practice with respect to software process and process improvement initiatives, in addition to investigating the relevant literature. Having examined a number of potentially suitable research methodologies, we have chosen Grounded Theory as a suitable approach to determine what was happening in actual practice in relation to software process and SPI, using the indigenous Irish software product industry as a test-bed. The outcome of this study is a theory, grounded in the field data, that explains when and why SPI is undertaken by the software industry. The objective of this paper is to describe both the selection and usage of grounded theory in this study and evaluate its effectiveness as a research methodology for software process researchers. Accordingly, this paper will focus on the selection and usage of grounded theory, rather than results of the SPI study itself.