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  • Integrating Culture Awareness and Formalisation in Software Process Assessment and Improvement for Very Small Entities (VSEs)

    Author(s)
    Nonoyama, Tatsuya
    Kabaale, Edward
    Wen, Lian
    Tuffley, David
    Wang, Zhe
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Tuffley, David J.
    Wen, Larry
    Nonoyama, Tatsuya
    Wang, Zhe
    Kabaale, Edward
    Year published
    2018
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    Abstract
    Software process assessment and process improvement are fundamentally essential if software companies are to improve their development processes and perform at best practice level. However, established software process assessment models (PAMs) like SPICE or CMMI are scaled to be applicable to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) all the way up to very large companies. So far, there is no mature PAM applicable to Very Small Entities (VSEs), which are usually defined as companies with 25 or less employees. As the majority of software companies are classified as VSEs, the lack of a mature PAM is a glaring omission in the Software ...
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    Software process assessment and process improvement are fundamentally essential if software companies are to improve their development processes and perform at best practice level. However, established software process assessment models (PAMs) like SPICE or CMMI are scaled to be applicable to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) all the way up to very large companies. So far, there is no mature PAM applicable to Very Small Entities (VSEs), which are usually defined as companies with 25 or less employees. As the majority of software companies are classified as VSEs, the lack of a mature PAM is a glaring omission in the Software Engineering domain in need of rectification. A major challenge with producing a VSE-appropriate PAM is the cultural diversity of VSEs. It is not amenable to a one size fits all solution suitable for all VSEs. Another challenge is the high human resource cost of a SPICE or CMMI process assessment. It is often cost-prohibitive for VSEs. This paper therefore proposes a model to meet the need; the Culture Impact on Software Assessment (CISA). CISA facilitates the development of PAMs that are both lightweight, making them easy and cheap to apply, while also being highly relevant to individual VSE, thereby significantly increasing the efficiency of PAMs. Additionally, this paper introduces a formal specification (ontology) of CISA to enable future development of software process semi-automatic assessment tools that will greatly reduce the cost for software process assessment for VSEs.
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    Conference Title
    SYSTEMS, SOFTWARE AND SERVICES PROCESS IMPROVEMENT (EUROSPI 2018)
    Volume
    896
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97925-0_10
    Subject
    Software engineering
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/381475
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