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European Conference on Software Process Improvement

EuroSPI 2012: Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement pp 145–156Cite as

Improvement of Task Management with Process Models in Small and Medium Software Companies

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Small and medium software companies exhibit many special features that give reason for a dedicated approach to process improvement. They often cannot afford implementing maturity models or quality standards both in terms of time and money. Instead, they expect simpler solutions that can allow to run projects in more systematic and repeatable way, increase quality and knowledge management. In this paper, we present a method focused on improvement of task management using the process models. The method proposes the integration of modeling and task management tools, where models become templates of enacted projects. We applied the method in two case studies with SMEs, where sample process models were built and enacted in adapted task management tools, followed by a survey. The survey resulted in 82.5% of positive answers. The case studies show considerable potential of our method in solving some improvement problems of SMEs.

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  1. Department of Software Engineering, Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland

    Jakub Miler

  2. Quality Assurance Department, Blue Services Sp. z o. o., Sopot, Poland

    Hanna Wesołowska

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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

  3. ISCN Ltd., Graz, Austria

    Richard Messnarz

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Miler, J., Wesołowska, H. (2012). Improvement of Task Management with Process Models in Small and Medium Software Companies. 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_13

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