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International Conference on Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination

SPICE 2017: Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination pp 45–54Cite as

Comparing SPI Survival Studies in Small Settings

Part of the Communications in Computer and Information Science book series (CCIS,volume 770)

Abstract

Small organisations have been applying several quality approaches such as CMMI-DEV or ISO/IEC 15504-5 with quite diverse results. In order to build an experience factory we are gathering our experiences in a database containing the assessment results of more than 90 initiatives. This paper provides an empirical comparison of survival analysis for different improvement initiatives in the context of very small entities. We compare the Cox Proportional Hazard Regression models of our 90 initiatives, and we discriminated them by the reference model used: ISO/IEC29110, CMMI-DEV or ITMark.

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  • ISO/IEC2 9110
  • Survival analysis
  • Product life cycle

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This paper has been partially funded by the AQUAS project with number 737475.

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Larrucea, X., Santamaria, I. (2017). Comparing SPI Survival Studies in Small Settings. In: Mas, A., Mesquida, A., O'Connor, R., Rout, T., Dorling, A. (eds) Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination. SPICE 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 770. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67383-7_4

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