Abstract
Every company tries to improve its overall business, especially in the fast and reacting world of software. For these improvement activities, the development process is a major aspect. Our goal was the elicitation of common improvement goals that are considered for improving the development process. For collecting the common improvement goals, we used a mixture of methods. We started with existing literature and results of a survey. Further, we extended both by a set of workshops with industrial partners. Besides the common aspects of time, cost, and quality, some new goals, such as participation and democratization, appeared. These results lead to a more practitioner-oriented field of process improvement, since we are aware of common practical improvement goals.
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This research is being funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF 01IS15038). We thank all the participants of the OOP-conference, and workshops. Finally, we were happy to receive feedback of Thomas Zehler on this paper.
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Schmitt, A., Diebold, P. (2016). Why Do We Do Software Process Improvement?. In: Abrahamsson, P., Jedlitschka, A., Nguyen Duc, A., Felderer, M., Amasaki, S., Mikkonen, T. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10027. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49094-6_23
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