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Blending Process Assessment and Employees Competencies Assessment in Very Small Entities

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Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2015)

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The ISO/IEC 29110 series aims to provide Very Small Entities (VSEs) with a set of standards based on subsets of existing standards. Process capability determination does not seem suitable for a VSE in terms of return on investment. Our approach moves the viewpoint away from process and to the human resources. We propose a blended assessment model using the ISO/IEC 15504 for the level 1, but based on competency assessment for higher levels.

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  1. Lab-STICC, Université de Brest, Brest, France

    Vincent Ribaud

  2. Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

    Rory V. O’Connor

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  1. Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland

    Rory V. O’Connor

  2. Turkish Standards Institution, Ankara, Turkey

    Mariye Umay Akkaya

  3. Turkish Standards Institution, Ankara, Turkey

    Kerem Kemaneci

  4. Çankaya University, Ankara, Turkey

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  5. Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg, Germany

    Alexander Poth

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Ribaud, V., O’Connor, R.V. (2015). Blending Process Assessment and Employees Competencies Assessment in Very Small Entities. In: O’Connor, R., Umay Akkaya, M., Kemaneci, K., Yilmaz, M., Poth, A., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 543. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24647-5_17

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