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Software Engineering Strategies: Aligning Software Process Improvement with Strategic Goals

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Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination (SPICE 2011)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 155))

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Aligning software process improvement with the business and strategic goals of an enterprise is a key success factor for process improvement. Software process improvement methods typically only provide little or generic guidance for goal centered process improvements. We provide a framework for developing software engineering strategies that are aligned with corporate strategies and goals. Strategic objects as an important part of our framework can be directly aligned with SPICE or CMMI processes. This allows that any process improvement action can be systematically aligned with strategic goals.

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  1. Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik - Software Engineering, Kepler University Linz, Altenberger Straße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Reinhold Plösch & Gustav Pomberger

  2. Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Softwarepark 21, 4232, Hagenberg, Austria

    Fritz Stallinger

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  1. Lero, The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

    Rory V. O’Connor

  2. Software Quality Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Terry Rout

  3. Regulated Software Research Group, Lero, The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Dundalk, Ireland

    Fergal McCaffery

  4. InterSPICE Ltd, 23 King Street, CB1 1AH, Cambridge, UK

    Alec Dorling

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Plösch, R., Pomberger, G., Stallinger, F. (2011). Software Engineering Strategies: Aligning Software Process Improvement with Strategic Goals. In: O’Connor, R.V., Rout, T., McCaffery, F., Dorling, A. (eds) Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination. SPICE 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 155. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21233-8_26

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