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In modern organizations teamwork is considered a key factor for succeeding in business. A growing emphasis on team culture culminates with a great number of articles analyzing different aspects to improve teamwork practises. Since software development projects are normally team efforts, teamwork improvement in software organizations should also be considered essential. In these companies, software process improvement programs based on international maturity standards are current issues in software engineering investigation. In this article, we firstly establish the teamwork key factors for succeeding in software development projects. Secondly, these key factors are analysed taking the ISO/IEC 15504 as a reference improvement framework.
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Amengual, E., Mas, A. (2007). Software Process Improvement Through Teamwork Management. In: Münch, J., Abrahamsson, P. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4589. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73460-4_12
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