A framework approach using CMMI for SPI to Indian SME'S

Sivashankar, M.; Kalpana, A. M.; Jeyakumar, A. Ebenezer

doi:10.1109/icinnovct.2010.5440086

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“…There are many different reasons, presented in the literature, why an SPI initiative succeeds or fails. Some researchers link the success of an SPI initiative to the organization size (e.g., large or SMEs) (Sánchez-Gordón et al, 2016) (Mutahar et al, 2016;Sivashankar et al, 2010). Others propose that some development processes improve the ability for successful SPI, e.g., SPI and agile methodologies (Chetankumar Patel, 2009;Polavarapu and Jami, 2016).…”

Section: Background and Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Empirical Investigation of Factors that Hamper Pursuing Software Process Improvement: Analyses of Saudi Practitioners’ Views

Zarour¹

2018

Journal of Computer Science

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Software product quality is affected by the quality of the process used to develop it. Improving process quality helps software organizations in developing better software products on time and within budget. To achieve these benefits, software organizations are becoming more interested to pursue Software Process Improvement (SPI) initiatives. The failure in pursuing such initiatives is affected by several factors. The literature reports many studies that document different factors impacting the success of SPI initiatives. Very few of these studies have been conducted in the Middle East and particularly in Saudi Arabia. In this study, we report the results of a survey-based empirical study that identify factors that hamper the SPI initiatives conducted by 26 organizations located in Saudi Arabia. A survey has been sent to various organizations. Responses have been collected and analyzed. Results from the literature review and from our survey have been synthesized and presented in this study along with a comparative analysis of similar factors reported in similar studies worldwide. Knowing, prioritizing and understanding these factors can help both researchers and software development organizations avoid them to successfully plan and execute SPI initiatives.

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Empirical Investigation of Factors that Hamper Pursuing Software Process Improvement: Analyses of Saudi Practitioners’ Views

Zarour¹

2018

Journal of Computer Science

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“…On the other way, there has been developed as result of research works models [9][17], methodologies [16], approaches [18][19] [20], methods [12], projects [21], frameworks [22] among others which pretend to help SMEs in the implementation of SPI initiatives.…”

Section: Software Process Improvement In Smesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Expected Requirements in Support Tools for Software Process Improvement in SMEs

Muñoz

Mejía

Calvo-Manzano

et al. 2012

2012 IEEE Ninth Electronics, Robotics and Automotive Mechanics Conference

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Nowadays being competitive is an important challenge for software development organizations. In order to achieve this, since last years, software process improvement has been an obvious and logical way. Unfortunately, even when many organizations are motivated to implement software process initiatives, not all know how best to do so, especially in Small and Medium Enterprises(SMEs) where due to its especial features, they have to be carefully in how to manage its resources to assure their market survival. Besides, even when there has been developed models which pretend to helps SMEs in the implementation of software process improvements, one of the main barrier that stopping SME's to implement software process improvements are the lack of knowledge and support of software process improvement. This paper presents an analysis of software process improvement at SMEs focusing on identifying on the one hand, SMEs features and success factors in the implementation of SPI initiatives. On the other hand, the expected requirements in a software tool focus on providing support for SMEs in the implementation of software process improvements initiatives (SPI).

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“…In this regard, several software process improvement (SPI) models have been developed to improve software process development. For instance, the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) [4], SPICE [1,6], Bootstrap [5], International organization for standardization ISO 9000 [8,7], the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) [2,3,18], and Six Sigma [13]. These standards were developed in last decade to assist and help corporations to achieve more reliable results.…”

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“…Several studies have been conducted in this context, the firms that use these standards showed excellent improvements in their development processes. For example, Hughes Aircraft adopted CMM standard in its development process and that enhanced its efficiency by saved millions of dollars [9].Unfortunately, some of earlier studies have been reported [1] [10] that all of these models are not applicable in software SME firms because they will face the problems of high cost to implement, time consuming, and resource constraints. Moreover, these standard models were developed to manage and improve the software development process in large and very large firms.…”

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Software Process Improvement Initiatives in Small and Medium Firms: A Systematic Review

Almomani

Basri

Mahamad

et al. 2014

2014 3rd International Conference on Advanced Computer Science Applications and Technologies

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Nowadays, software firms are playing very important roles in economies all over the world, and majority of these firms are Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The SMEs recognize that it is important to improve their development processes and activities in order to produce software with high quality and to be competitive in the software industry. However, several studies have shown that the SMEs used ad-hoc manner in their development processes and they suffer from lack of the knowledge and resources to do Software Process Improvement (SPI). In this paper, a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) is used to identify and discuss the SPI initiatives in SME software firms. The results of the systematic review showed that the majority of software process improvement initiatives in SME firms are carried out in America and Europe. Only in one Asian country, Hong Kong was the SPI initiative considered and CMM Fast-Track was the model developed. The developed model did not cover all the CMM levels, only levels 1 and 2 were considered. In conclusion, many Software Process Improvement initiatives have been proposed for SME software firms but they have shortcomings such as lack of generalizability and take a lot of time to gain the benefits/advantage of the SPI model after implementation.

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A framework approach using CMMI for SPI to Indian SME'S

Cited by 8 publications

References 10 publications

Empirical Investigation of Factors that Hamper Pursuing Software Process Improvement: Analyses of Saudi Practitioners’ Views

Empirical Investigation of Factors that Hamper Pursuing Software Process Improvement: Analyses of Saudi Practitioners’ Views

Expected Requirements in Support Tools for Software Process Improvement in SMEs

Software Process Improvement Initiatives in Small and Medium Firms: A Systematic Review

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