Critical Success Factors in Software Process Improvement: A Systematic Review

Bayona-Oré, Sussy; Villalón, José Antonio Calvo-Manzano; Feliú, Tomás San

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-30439-2_1

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“…This research showed no considerable resistance against acceptation of new practices. This is in contrary with what were previously reported by other researchers [14,15]. This can be the result of the nomination process whereby only the qualified and talented people have been nominated for the adoption process.…”

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Introduction of Scrum in An Elite Team: A Case Study

Khosravi¹,

Gandomani²,

Fahimian³

2017

JSW

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Scrum as one of the most popular software methodologies, has been growly employed by software teams and companies in recent years. This method provides several simple and effective practices to manage software projects. However, despite of its simple structure, lots of challenges and issues have been reported during Scrum adoption. Te main aim of this paper is to report the main issues of introducing Scrum in a particular team. Team members had been selected within a nomination process. The adoption process took about 6 months, and adoption proceeded during a real, but not critical project. Results showed several challenges and barriers the team faced with. The most critical issues were regarding team collaboration and commitment. Moreover, collaboration with product owner and sprint planning were the others major issues. Finally, while the results showed a few challenges regarding planning game and retrospective meeting, no challenge has been reported regarding tools and technology.

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Section: Concise Discussioncontrasting

confidence: 86%

Introduction of Scrum in An Elite Team: A Case Study

Khosravi¹,

Gandomani²,

Fahimian³

2017

JSW

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“…Stakeholder Involvement is considered one of the main factors that help to facilitate successful SPI initiatives. This factor is widely reported in the software process literature, for example . According to Dyba, staff involvement is defined as “the extent to which employees use their knowledge and experience to decide, act, and take responsibility for SPI, and this is positively associated with SPI success”.…”

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“…The software process literature studied indicated that an employees' learning is an effective factor ensuring the success of SPI efforts . According to Dyba, 2 categories of learning strategies exist: exploitation and exploration.…”

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“…This factor is widely reported in the software process literature, for example. 27,30,[47][48][49] According to Dyba,30 staff involvement is defined as "the extent to which employees use their knowledge and experience to decide, act, and take responsibility for SPI, and this is positively associated with SPI success". According to Basili, et al, 55 the direct input from developers is considered as an important factor during the software process change.…”

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“…The software process literature studied indicated that an employees' learning is an effective factor ensuring the success of SPI efforts. 27,[45][46][47][48]53 According to Dyba, 30 2 categories of learning strategies exist: exploitation and exploration. Exploitation learning is defined as "the adoption and use of existing knowledge and experience".…”

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Empirical study of software process improvement in Malaysian small and medium enterprises: The human aspects

Almomani

Basri

Gilal

2018

J Software Evolu Process

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Software Process Improvement (SPI) aims to achieve quality software products in software companies. Ignoring human factors can cause several types of damage in the software development process. Because, Software development is not a purely technical task, but rather it is a relationship between technical and human factors that interact with each other constantly. Currently, Small Medium Enterprises' (SMEs) software development companies in Malaysia still struggle to implement SPI successfully. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to investigate the empirical evidence based on the human factor perspective for helping Malaysian SMEs' software development companies to implement SPI strategies. A questionnaire‐based survey method was used for gathering information from 79 practitioners. The results indicate that 9 factors (employee awareness, leadership involvement, employee involvement, customer involvement, senior management support, staff experience, staff learning, staff skills, and client support) are considered important for implementing SPI in Malaysian SME software development companies. The involvement of both leadership and employees, and getting support from management are the most important human factors that should be considered during the design process of SPI strategies.

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TestSPICE and Agile Testing – Synergy or Confusion

Schweigert

Vohwinkel

Blaschke

et al. 2013

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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Abstract. The paper deals with the question how a capability oriented model like TestSPICE could contribute to the improvement of agile testing. We know from several studies, that agile methods like XP or SCRUM deliver good support for higher capability or maturity levels of SPICE as well as of CMMI. On the other hand the authors were did not find relevant studies that deal with the question how SPICE could help to mature agile practices. One of the reasons is that there is no common accepted agile maturity model (but up to 40 published approaches). In this case the training and the experience to the Assessment and process improvement (PI) team is a key success factor. A double certification as Assessor and CAT might be helpful. The paper is written from the perspective of a consultant wanting to help customers to improve and searching for options to give advice.

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Critical Success Factors in Software Process Improvement: A Systematic Review

Cited by 23 publications

References 16 publications

Introduction of Scrum in An Elite Team: A Case Study

Introduction of Scrum in An Elite Team: A Case Study

Empirical study of software process improvement in Malaysian small and medium enterprises: The human aspects

TestSPICE and Agile Testing – Synergy or Confusion

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