Agile software development of short iterative cycles offers an opportunity for rapid, visible and motivating software process improvement (SPI). The agile principles suggest the regular reflections of agile project teams for improving the efficiency and adaptation of the process. However, current literature provides little support or empirical evidence for conducting such improvement efficientl...

In this paper we present an integrated framework for software process improvement according to CMM. The framework is double-integrated. First, it is based on the systematic integration of dynamic modules to build a dynamic model to model each maturity level proposed in the reference model. As a consequence, a hierarchical set of dynamic models is developed following the same hierarchy of levels...

Different advances have been made in the development of software process improvement (SPI) standards and models, e.g. capability maturity model (CMM), more recently CMMI, and ISO’s SPICE. However, these advances have not been matched by equal advances in the adoption of these standards and models in software development which has resulted in limited success for many SPI efforts. The current pro...

Software Process Improvement (SPI) has become the key to the survival of many software development organizations. As a follow-up of a previous paper on SPI for the CMM using Quality Function Deployment (QFD), a new SPI framework integrating QFD with the CMMI is developed. Similar to the earlier SPI framework for the CMM, the proposed SPI framework based on the CMMI using QFD aims to achieve thr...

Context: Software Process Improvement initiatives have been around for many years with the growing globalisation of software development is making them increasingly important. Objective: The objective of this exploratory research is to gain an in-depth understanding of barriers that can undermine SPI, in the context of Global Software Development, from the perspective of software development pr...

Software process improvement can follow a capability maturity model such as SPICE or CMMi. Or it can focus on improving selected software processes in detail. The latter can either be a stand-alone improvement activity, or it can tune processes that were established or modified due to a large-scale assessment. Some software processes need to be adjusted qualitatively: process steps or deliverab...

Process and Continuous Process Improvement is a very important aspect of the software organization to meet the cost effective objectives of organizations in competitive environment. So it is a very big challenge for the organizations to constantly analyze their processes and improve them whenever necessary, to make a successful and quality software projects. Considering the importance of Softwa...

Quality managers, change agents and researchers are often troubled in defining and demonstrating the level of success achieved in software process improvement (SPI) initiatives. So far, there exist only few frameworks for identifying the level of success achieved in SPI. Analysis shows that these frameworks do not provide a comprehensive view from all relevant stakeholders involved in SPI. Earl...

Claudia Alquicira Ultrasist S oftware constitutes an important industry for developing Latin American countries. The smalland medium-sized companies that account for up to half the industry’s employment face serious problems, however, when they start to grow. In many cases, the absence of a visible software-development process creates chaos for the entire organization, including its products.1 ...

It has been well established in the software process improvement (SPI) literature and practice that without management commitment to SPI the initiative will most likely fail or the results are not far reaching. Three forms of commitment are introduced: affective, continuance and normative. Analysis shows that current models of management commitment development lack scientific validity and are b...