An Improvement Strategy for Small Latin-American Software Organizations
نویسندگان
چکیده
AbstrAct From BLOCKINthe BLOCKINbeginning BLOCKINof BLOCKINthe BLOCKIN21st BLOCKINcentury BLOCKINonwards, BLOCKINthe BLOCKINsoftware BLOCKINengineering BLOCKINcommunity BLOCKIN(industry BLOCKINand BLOCKINre-searchers) BLOCKINhas BLOCKINexpressed BLOCKINa BLOCKINspecial BLOCKINinterest BLOCKINin BLOCKINsoftware BLOCKINprocess BLOCKINimprovement BLOCKIN(SPI) BLOCKINfor BLOCKINsmall BLOCKINand BLOCKINmedium enterprises BLOCKIN(SMEs). BLOCKINThis BLOCKINgrowing BLOCKINinterest BLOCKINis BLOCKINdue BLOCKINto BLOCKINthe BLOCKINfact BLOCKINthat BLOCKINthe BLOCKINsoftware BLOCKINindustry BLOCKINin BLOCKINmost BLOCKINcountries has an industrial backcloth, made up mainly of small and medium software organisations which favour the BLOCKINgrowth BLOCKINof BLOCKINtheir BLOCKINnational BLOCKINeconomies. BLOCKINIn BLOCKINorder BLOCKINto BLOCKINfortify BLOCKINthese BLOCKINkind BLOCKINof BLOCKINorganisations, BLOCKINefficient BLOCKINstrate-gies, practices, or guides to tailor SPI to their size and type of business are needed. Therefore, in this chapter, the COMPETISOFT project is presented. The COMPETISOFT project's main aim is to provide the software industry in Latin America with a reference framework for software process improvement and certification, BLOCKINwhich BLOCKINwill BLOCKINenable BLOCKINit BLOCKINto BLOCKINbe BLOCKINmore BLOCKINcompetitive BLOCKINin BLOCKINthe BLOCKINglobal BLOCKINmarket.
منابع مشابه
The Impact of Dynamic Balanced Scorecard in Knowledge-Intensive Organizations’ Business Process Management: A New Approach Evidenced by Small and Medium-Size Enterprises in Latin America
Dynamic Balanced Scorecard (DBSC) is an effective business performance management control tool for dealing with business uncertainty, performance monitoring, evaluation and forecasting. DBSC has been proposed and utilized extensively over the years as an effective tool to manage and control the dynamics of business processes (BP) and their performance. However, there is little evidence of its a...
متن کاملA Methodology for Self-Diagnosis for Software Quality Assurance in Small and Medium-Sized Industries in Latin America
Currently, only a small fraction of software companies around the world achieve a high quality level for their development process. A vast majority of software producers, which have not yet implemented a methodology for software quality assurance, are paying high costs of production and systems maintenance, and are therefore being displaced from the global market, not being on the same competit...
متن کاملSoftware Process Improvement in Small Scale Organizations: An Empirical Study
Though, small organizations do not have the same funding opportunities as that of largeorganizations yet they too need of software process improvement programs. It is better toinitiate a software process improvement program as early as possible, irrespective of theorganization size. The small organization grows over the time and become a large organizationand at that time an ide...
متن کامل)dfwruvvrii6riwzduhh3urfhvvv,psuryhphqww6xffhvvv Lqq6pdooodqgg/dujhh2ujdql]dwlrqv$qq(pslulfdoo 6wxg\\lqqwkhh6fdqglqdyldqq&rqwh[ww
Existing software engineering and organization development literature acknowledges that there are fundamental operational differences between small and large organizations. Despite this recognition, there has been no attempt to verify whether small and large software organizations implement software process improvement (SPI) programs differently in order to advance their businesses. This study ...
متن کاملSoftware Process Improvement for Small and Very Small Enterprises
Software organizations have been struggling for decades to improve the quality of their products by improving their software development processes. Designing an improvement program for a software development process is a demanding and complex task. This task consists of two main processes: the assessment process and the improvement process. A successful improvement process requires first a succ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
عنوان ژورنال:
دوره شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015