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Gained Experience by Making Intervention to Improve Software Process in Very Small Organizations

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Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination (SPICE 2012)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 290))

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Many research have been accomplished in assessing software process in small enterprises; in this paper we introduce our experience in conducting SPI initiatives with very small enterprises VSE using the OWPL assessment method. Interventions to these enterprises have been made to help them improving their software processes. The lessons learned by applying the micro-evaluation approach have been discussed at the end of the intervention process. In this intervention we have assessed four different VSE.

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  1. King AbdulAziz City of Science and Technology, Computer Research Center, Department of Software Engineering, Saudi Arabia, P.O Box 6086, Riyadh, 11442

    Mohammad Zarour & Abdulrahman Alarifi

  2. École de Technologie Supérieure, Montréal, Québec, Canada

    Jean-Marc Desharnais

  3. University of Namur – Facultés Universitaires N.D. de la Paix, Rue Grandgagnage, 21, 5000, Namur, Belgique, Belgium

    Naji Habra, Grégory Cassiers & Antoine Robaeys

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of the Balearic Islands, Cra. de Valldemossa, km 7.5, 07122, Palma de Mallorca (Illes Balears), Spain

    Antonia Mas  & Antoni Mesquida  & 

  2. Software Quality Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Terry Rout

  3. Lero, the Irish Software Engineering, Research Centre, Dublin City University, School of Computing, Dublin, Ireland

    Rory V. O’Connor

  4. InterSPICE Ltd, 23 King Street, CB1 1AH, Cambridge, UK

    Alec Dorling

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Zarour, M., Desharnais, JM., Alarifi, A., Habra, N., Cassiers, G., Robaeys, A. (2012). Gained Experience by Making Intervention to Improve Software Process in Very Small Organizations. In: Mas, A., Mesquida, A., Rout, T., O’Connor, R.V., Dorling, A. (eds) Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination. SPICE 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 290. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30439-2_5

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