Sustaining software process improvement (SPI) in software-developing organisations
This thesis aims to extend prior research on Software Process Improvement (SPI) by examining the issue of sustainment i.e. what organisational factors influence the sustainment of SPI? It uses insights from prior literature-based research on process improvement and multiple longitudinal case studies to generate a model of organisational context factors
Khurshid Mohamed, Nazrina
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Software Process Improvement Measurement and Evaluation Framework (SPI-MEF)
During the last decades, the dependency on software has increased. Many of today’s modern devices embed software to control their functions. The increasing dependency has also taken part in shaping the software development process to produce better quality software. Many researchers and practitioners have spent large investments to improve the software
Islam, A.K.M. Moinul +1 more
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A cloud software life cycle process (CSLCP) model
Small to medium-sized enterprises take advantage of the strengths and opportunities of cloud computing. These enterprises require a well-defined software process model to produce reliable and quality cloud software, given their limited resources ...
Amira A. Alshazly +3 more
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A hierarchy of SPI activities for software SMEs: results from ISO/IEC 12207-based SPI assessments [PDF]
In an assessment of software process improvement (SPI) in 15 software small- and –medium-sized enterprises (software SMEs), we applied the broad spectrum of software specific and system context processes in ISO/IEC 12207 to the task of examining SPI in ...
Paul Clarke +11 more
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The effect of team dynamics on software development process improvement [PDF]
This article identifies the effect of team dynamics in the context of software development teams and its impact on software process improvement (SPI) activities in very small companies, in order to understand the relation- ship between these two ...
O'Connor, Rory +3 more
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Software development organizations are globalizing their activities by adopting the phenomenon of global software development (GSD), mainly due to the significant return on investment it offers. Various challenges are associated with the software process
Arif Ali Khan +3 more
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Harnessing ISO/IEC 12207 to examine the extent of SPI activity in an organisation [PDF]
The quality of the software development process directly affects the quality of the software product. To be successful, software development organisations must respond to changes in technology and business circumstances, and therefore software process ...
Paul Clarke +7 more
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Ignoring ‘best practice’: Why Irish software SMEs are rejecting CMMI and ISO 9000 [PDF]
Software Process Improvement (SPI) ‘best practice’ models such as ISO 9000 and the Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI) have been developed to assist software development organisations by harnessing their experience and providing them with support
Gerry Coleman (12588847) +7 more
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The Proposal of Adding a Society Value to the Software Process Improvement Manifesto [PDF]
The use of computers has become ubiquitous and spread out to every part of our personal lives and businesses. Computer Ethics focuses on the questions of right and wrong that arise from the development and deployment of computers. Thus, it urges that the
Siakas, E. +5 more
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Using grounded theory to understand software process improvement: A study of Irish software product companies [PDF]
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 ...
O'Connor, Rory +2 more
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