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Organizational support for process improvement initiatives is vital to the success of these improvements. This paper describes and explores the steps of supporting process improvements described in the new international standard ISO/IEC 33014 that is currently being developed.
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Lepmets, M., Ras, E., Renault, A. (2011). Organizational Support for Process Improvement – Results of an International Survey. In: O’Connor, R.V., Rout, T., McCaffery, F., Dorling, A. (eds) Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination. SPICE 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 155. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21233-8_12
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