For many small software companies, full-scale software process improvement (SPI) initiatives are often out of reach due to prohibitive costs and lack of SPI knowledge. However, to...
Pressures for more complex products, customer dissatisfaction and problems related to cost and schedule overruns increase the need for effective management response and for improve...
Daniela Cristina Cascini Peixoto, Vitor A. Batista...
Software process improvement is an iterative activity, normally involving measurement, analysis, and change. For most organizations, the existing software process has substantial ...
Shihong Huang, Scott R. Tilley, Michael VanHilst, ...
We draw from the quality management and organizational learning literatures to develop a descriptive model of software process management. These literature streams suggest that the...
Researchers in the field of software engineering economics have associated team factors, such as team size and team experience, with productivity and quality. Since distributed and...