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Self-assessment to understand the capability of any organization or “Where we Stand” is the key objective of this paper. It enhances the software engineering practices in the context of the quality of products. Software Process Improvement Assessment frameworks like CMMI and ISO/IEC 15504 –SPICE does assessment by the experts and professional involving high cost resulting many SMEs refrain from adapting the standard models for assessment. Perceived need observed to have a Self-assessment model, which will enable the organization using indigenous model for assessment following standards. The proposed model will address the issues of strength and weak-ness and to take appropriate measure for software process improvement thus enhancing organization’s capability. It is a well disciplined and well targeted assessment framework based on basic and simple questionnaires that covers the whole organization diversified activities and success stories to arrive at conclusion and establishing improvement initiatives.
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Kar, S., Das, S., Kumar Rath, A., Kar, S.K. (2012). Self-assessment Model and Review Technique for SPICE: SMART SPICE. In: Mas, A., Mesquida, A., Rout, T., O’Connor, R.V., Dorling, A. (eds) Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination. SPICE 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 290. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30439-2_20
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