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International Conference on Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development

SEAFOOD 2008: Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development pp 59–72Cite as

Evaluation of Software Process Improvement in Small Organizations

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 16))

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At the domestic and regional level most organizations willing to participate in software development projects at international off-shore markets operates at small or medium organizational sizes and therefore isn’t included by the organizational scales referred at the typical SPI bibliography. A systemic model is then implemented aiming to get an initial understanding over the behavior of the different variables involved, their contribution to the improvement effort, outcome sensibility to model parameters, the systemic relations at large and the limits derived from the holistic interaction of all.

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  1. EDS ASFO – Av. Voz del Interior 7050 – EDS, Argentina

    Pedro E. Colla

  2. Facultad Regional Santa Fé, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Argentina

    Pedro E. Colla

  3. INGAR - Avellaneda 3657 – CIDISI – FRSF – UTN, Argentina

    Jorge Marcelo Montagna

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  1. Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 00919, San Juan, Puerto Rico

    Kay Berkling

  2. Tata Consultancy Services, 411 001, Pune, India

    Mathai Joseph

  3. ETH Zurich, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland

    Bertrand Meyer  & Martin Nordio  & 

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Colla, P.E., Montagna, J.M. (2009). Evaluation of Software Process Improvement in Small Organizations. In: Berkling, K., Joseph, M., Meyer, B., Nordio, M. (eds) Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development. SEAFOOD 2008. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 16. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01856-5_5

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