Abstract
The question is: Can an ISO 9001 certificate lead to software improvement? The answer is: yes — based on 50 BOOTSTRAP maturity assessments carried out in Danish companies.
One conclusions is that there is a clear correlation between the maturity in software development process and the holding of an ISO 9001 certificate. It is not only the quality system and the software quality management that is influenced by an ISO 9001 certification: but other software processes such as e.g. projects management. In other words there is a spin-of effect from an ISO 9001 certification leading to software process improvement in other, not closely related areas.
This paper also concludes, that maturity is correlated with the size of the company. Finally it shows which recommendations are the often given as a result of an BOOTSTRAP assessment — where are the main problems?
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Pries-Heje, J., Hass, A.M.J., Johansen, J. (2001). Taking the Temperature on Danish Software Quality. In: Wieczorek, M., Meyerhoff, D. (eds) Software Quality. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56529-8_4
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