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A Process for Driving Process Improvement in VSEs

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Trustworthy Software Development Processes (ICSP 2009)

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A success factor in Software Process Improvement -SPI- in very small enterprises -VSEs- is that improvement effort must be guided and managed by means of specific process. Nonetheless, many proposals related to this issue have not considered that type of process explicitly. So, aiming to establish SPI in VSEs systematically and coherently, we have defined a light process for managing and leading the improvement process step-by-step, called PmCOMPETISOFT. This paper introduces that process, which guides the implantation of an improvement cycle in an iterative and incremental manner. It also describes our experience of the application of the proposed process in four VSEs, through case studies. The results of the case studies show that the companies increased the capability of their processes, and that it is feasible to implement this process in this type of organizations, by investing an effort which corresponds to the particular characteristics of each.

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  1. IDIS Research Group – Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering Faculty, University of Cauca, Street 5 # 4 – 70, Popayán, Colombia

    Francisco J. Pino & Julio Ariel Hurtado Alegría

  2. Faculty of Engineering and Business, University of Ciencias de la Informática, Pedro de Valdivia 450, Santiago, Chile

    Juan Carlos Vidal

  3. Alarcos Research Group – Institute of Information Technologies & Systems, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Paseo de la Universidad, 4, 13071, Ciudad Real, Spain

    Francisco J. Pino, Félix García & Mario Piattini

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  1. Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.4 South Fourth Street, Zhong Guan Cun, 100190, Beijing, China

    Qing Wang

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada

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  3. Department of Systems Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School, Bullard Hall, Room 201J, 777 Dyer Road, CA 93943, Monterey, USA

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Pino, F.J., Hurtado Alegría, J.A., Vidal, J.C., García, F., Piattini, M. (2009). A Process for Driving Process Improvement in VSEs. In: Wang, Q., Garousi, V., Madachy, R., Pfahl, D. (eds) Trustworthy Software Development Processes. ICSP 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5543. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01680-6_31

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