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Managing the software process with a software process improvement tool in a small enterprise
Author(s) -
García Iván,
Pacheco Carla,
Mendoza Eloy,
CalvoManzano Jose A.,
Cuevas Gonzalo,
San Feliu Tomás
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of software: evolution and process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 2047-7481
pISSN - 2047-7473
DOI - 10.1002/smr.504
Subject(s) - capability maturity model integration , team software process , personal software process , computer science , software development process , software engineering , process (computing) , software engineering process group , process management , software development , capability maturity model , goal driven software development process , leancmmi , software project management , software , engineering management , engineering , software construction , operating system
SUMMARY Top‐down process improvement approaches provide a high‐level model of what the process of a software development organization should be. Such models are based on the consensus of a designated working group on how software should be developed or maintained. They are very useful in that they provide general guidelines on where to start improving, and in which order. However, the majority of them have only worked in scenarios within large companies. We aim to help small software development organizations to adopt an iterative approach by providing a Process Improvement Web‐based Tool (SysProVal). This paper presents research into the proposal that a small organization may use this tool to define and implement a set of project management practices that can be strengthened using the CMMI‐DEV 1.2 model as reference. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.