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Business Success in Software SMEs: Recommendations for Future SPI Studies

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Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2012)

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There is presently insufficient data regarding the relationship between software process improvement (SPI) and business success, a fact which may reduce process prioritisation in software development in practice. To assist future studies examining the relationship between SPI and business success, we developed a new two-phased approach to examining business success. The first phase involves the elicitation of business objectives for the forthcoming year, with the second phase determining the extent of achievement of the recorded objectives. At EuroSPI 2011, we described the two-phased approach in detail and reported on the findings from deploying the first phase of the examination to software developing small- and medium-sized enterprises (software SMEs). In this follow-up paper, we report on the findings from the second phase of the investigation in the participating software SMEs, formulating an additional important new recommendation for future studies.

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  1. Lero Graduate School in Software Engineering, Dublin City University, Ireland

    Paul Clarke

  2. Dublin City University, Ireland

    Rory V. O’Connor

  3. Lero, The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland

    Rory V. O’Connor

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  1. Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Karlsplatz 13, P.O. Box A-1040, Vienna, Austria

    Dietmar Winkler

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

    Rory V. O’Connor

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    Richard Messnarz

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Clarke, P., O’Connor, R.V. (2012). Business Success in Software SMEs: Recommendations for Future SPI Studies. In: Winkler, D., O’Connor, R.V., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 301. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31199-4_1

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