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Towards a Strategy for Process Improvement Education and Training

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Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination (SPICE 2017)

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At the 2015 Software Process Education, Training and Professionalism workshop, the focus was on bringing together a Manifesto to include values and principles. However, without a strategy driven by a commonly shared vision, it may be difficult to seek more tangible outcomes. This paper drafts a proposed strategy that might help us move forward.

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Ibrahim, L., Mitasiunas, A. (2017). Towards a Strategy for Process Improvement Education and Training. In: Mas, A., Mesquida, A., O'Connor, R., Rout, T., Dorling, A. (eds) Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination. SPICE 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 770. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67383-7_38

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