A framework for assisting the design of effective software process improvement implementation strategies

Niazi, Mahmood; Wilson, David W.; Zowghi, Didar

doi:10.1016/j.jss.2004.09.001

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“…However, like the researchers of many studies based on opinion data (e.g., [1,18]), we also have full confidence in our findings because we have collected data from practitioners working in quite diverse roles and directly involved in SPL activities within their organizations. Sample size may be another issue as we had only 11 participants from 11 organizations in 3 focus group sessions.…”

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confidence: 62%

Variability Management in Software Product Lines: An Investigation of Contemporary Industrial Challenges

Chen

Babar

2010

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Variability management is critical for achieving the large scale reuse promised by the software product line paradigm. It has been studied for almost 20 years. We assert that it is important to explore how well the body of knowledge of variability management solves the challenges faced by industrial practitioners, and what are the remaining and (or) emerging challenges. To gain such understanding of the challenges of variability management faced by practitioners, we have conducted an empirical study using focus group as data collection method. The results of the study highlight several technical challenges that are often faced by practitioners in their daily practices. Different from previous studies, the results also reveal and shed light on several non-technical challenges that were almost neglected by existing research.

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confidence: 62%

Variability Management in Software Product Lines: An Investigation of Contemporary Industrial Challenges

Chen

Babar

2010

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…This situation can cause at least one problem -practitioners' perceptions and experiences may not be fully accurate as the relative 'values' assigned to different practices may actually be different. However, like the researchers of many studies based on opinion data [3,6,38], we also have full confidence in our findings because we have collected data from practitioners who were directly involved in SPI efforts in their respective organisations and their perceptions and experiences were explored without any direction from the researchers.…”

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confidence: 76%

Identifying high perceived value practices of CMMI level 2: An empirical study

Niazi

Babar

2009

Information and Software Technology

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a b s t r a c tObjective: In this paper, we present findings from an empirical study that was aimed at identifying the relative ''perceived value" of CMMI level 2 specific practices based on the perceptions and experiences of practitioners of small and medium size companies. The objective of this study is to identify the extent to which a particular CMMI practice is used in order to develop a finer-grained framework, which encompasses the notion of perceived value within specific practices. Method: We used face-to-face questionnaire based survey sessions as the main approach to collecting data from 46 software development practitioners from Malaysia and Vietnam. We asked practitioners to choose and rank CMMI level 2 practices against the five types of assessments (high, medium, low, zero or do not know). From this, we have proposed the notion of 'perceived value' associated with each practice. Results: We have identified three 'requirements management' practices as having a 'high perceived value'. The results also reveal the similarities and differences in the perceptions of Malaysian and Vietnamese practitioners with regard to the relative values of different practices of CMMI level 2 process areas. Conclusions: Small and medium size companies should not be seen as being ''at fault" for not adopting CMMI -instead the Software Process Improvement (SPI) implementation approaches and its transition mechanisms should be improved. We argue that research into ''tailoring" existing process capability maturity models may address some of the issues of small and medium size companies.

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“…We will search for least four OSDO vendors' organisations for the assessment of the OCMM. The same approach is also used as reported in the literature for the assessment of SOVRM model [1] and [12]. "The case study method of empirical study is considered a powerful evaluation tool and give useful real-world information [13], so we have planned to use this for OCMM assessment.…”

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A Case Study Protocol for Outsourcing Contract Management Model (OCMM)

Khan¹,

Khan²,

Khan³

2017

JSW

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Abstract:Offshore software development is a software paradigm for developing high quality software at low wage country at reduces cost. We have proposed a model of outsourcing contract management model (OCMM). The success factors, risk factors and practices for the identified factors were identified through systematic literature review (SLR). Questionnaire survey was conducted for the validation of the SLR findings. This protocol developed for the evaluation of OCMM through case studies. This evaluation will assist in improvement of the propose model and will set according to requirement.

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A framework for assisting the design of effective software process improvement implementation strategies

Cited by 108 publications

References 27 publications

Variability Management in Software Product Lines: An Investigation of Contemporary Industrial Challenges

Variability Management in Software Product Lines: An Investigation of Contemporary Industrial Challenges

Identifying high perceived value practices of CMMI level 2: An empirical study

A Case Study Protocol for Outsourcing Contract Management Model (OCMM)

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