Lightweight SPI assessments: what is the real cost?
Author(s) -
McCaffery Fergal,
Coleman Gerry
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
software process: improvement and practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1099-1670
pISSN - 1077-4866
DOI - 10.1002/spip.430
Subject(s) - software , irish , process (computing) , software engineering , computer science , software development , software development process , team software process , personal software process , process management , software peer review , engineering management , software construction , engineering , operating system , philosophy , linguistics
In this article, we describe the implementation of an assessment method that was developed to assess software processes within small to medium‐sized Irish software organisations that have little or no experience of software process improvement (SPI) programmes. We discuss the actual overheads associated with performing software process assessments based upon our experiences of performing assessments in three small to medium‐sized (SMEs) software development companies. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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