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...
Software process improvement (SPI) has emerged as a critical area for organizations involved in software development. There is now considerable evidence that SPI can provide subst...
Software process assessments have been used to verify the conformance with quality reference models or standards, usually in a context of software process improvement programs. Mo...
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...
Rigorous software process improvement (SPI) assessments are considered by many small software development firms to be too expensive. This paper presents the results from a program...