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TAPISTRY is a tutored process improvement approach tailored for small enterprises. The approach was developed, used and validated in an ongoing ESSI Esprit project (No 24238), called “TAPISTRY.” The TAPISTRY project adopted a downscaled assessment model of the BOOTSTRAP assessment methodology, called BootCheck, and developed a workshop-based assessment and improvement method, to form together a process improvement approach for small-to-medium-sized enterprises. In TAPISTRY workshops the participants are tutored in self-assessment and improvement planning by software process improvement experts. The resulting TAPISTRY approach was validated through the experiments performed during the TAPISTRY project.
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Kuvaja, P., Palo, J. & Bicego, A. TAPISTRY—A Software Process Improvement Approach Tailored for Small Enterprises. Software Quality Journal 8, 149–156 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008909011736
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