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CIMPS 2018: Trends and Applications in Software Engineering pp 88–98Cite as

Reinforcing Very Small Entities Using Agile Methodologies with the ISO/IEC 29110

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Software development organizations have had significant economic impact activity in recent years. The growing of the software demand has created opportunities for very small entities (VSEs) to produce software and services to satisfy market needs. This situation highlights the increasing need for improving their development software processes to stay in the market and to develop quality software products and services to achieve steady grown. Unfortunately, a common issue that most of the VSEs are facing is the lack of the knowledge and practical experience regarding the implementation of current software process improvements (SPI) models and standards. This problem becomes critical because VSEs are under increasing pressure to improve their productivity and quality while keeping costs to a minimum. This paper describes experience to reinforce the software development process of 4 software development organizations had used agile methodologies and implemented the ISO/IEC 29110 standard in the state of Zacatecas of México. The paper presents this experience, the benefits, lessons learned and the goals achieved.

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  1. Unidad Zacatecas, Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas A.C., Parque Quauntum, Ciudad del Conocimiento, Avenida Lassec, Andador Galileo Galilei, Manzana, 3 Lote 7, CP 98160, Zacatecas, Zac, Mexico

    Mirna Muñoz & Jezreel Mejia

  2. Department of Software and IT Engineering, École de technologie supérieure, 1100, Notre-Dame Street West, Montréal, Quebec, H3C 1K3, Canada

    Claude Y. Laporte

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  1. Unidad Zacatecas, Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas A. C., Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico

    Jezreel Mejia

  2. Unidad Zacatecas, Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas A. C., Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico

    Mirna Muñoz

  3. Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Álvaro Rocha

  4. Departamento de Ciencias Computacionales, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

    Adriana Peña

  5. Centro Universitario de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

    Marco Pérez-Cisneros

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Muñoz, M., Mejia, J., Laporte, C.Y. (2019). Reinforcing Very Small Entities Using Agile Methodologies with the ISO/IEC 29110. In: Mejia, J., Muñoz, M., Rocha, Á., Peña, A., Pérez-Cisneros, M. (eds) Trends and Applications in Software Engineering. CIMPS 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 865. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01171-0_8

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