Software Process Improvement Model Comparison and Organizational Factors: a Review

A New Optimized Hybrid Model Based On COCOMO to Increase the Accuracy of Software Cost Estimation

The literature review shows software development projects often neither meet time deadlines, nor run within the allocated budgets. One common reason can be the inaccurate cost estimation process, although several approaches have been proposed in this field. Recent research studies suggest that in order to increase the accuracy of this process, estimation models have to be revised. The Construct...

Relevant Organizational Values in the Implementation of Software Process Improvement Initiatives

In a globalized world, organizational culture plays an important role in companies since it represents one of the main factors of business success in competitive scenarios. Organizational culture is defined by a set of attitudes, behaviors, norms and beliefs that may guide the life of a company. Organizational values can ensure a common understanding among everyone in the organization, provided...

Organization and Process Together

Position The role of humans in the software development process must be studied in the context of their organizational connguration. The organizational structure within which the process executes has a profound effect on its outcome. The communication and interaction problems associated with human involvement in development cannot be addressed by process improvement alone. The solution must inc...

Success factors of organizational change in software process improvement

Entry strategies into the process improvement initiative

One of the more important steps in starting a process improvement initiative is to determine the appropriate tasking and the scope of the process improvement program. There is great temptation for an organization to attempt to take on too much too fast, especially if it feels that it must catch up to its competition. For example, an organization will assess its capability against all of the Key...