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A Case Study on Employee Perceptions of Organization Wide Continuous Process Improvement Activities

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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))

Abstract

Staged models for software process improvement have been extensively used by organizations. However the relationship between these models and organization wide continuous process improvement has not been studied extensively. This study builds upon a previous study that aims to fill in this gap by analyzing the software process improvement activities within a software company that has CMMI level-3 certification. The employees’ perception regarding the organization wide continuous process improvement activities are analyzed and improvement opportunities for staged models are discussed.

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  1. Informatics Institute, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

    Algan Uskarcı & Onur Demirörs

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  1. Algan Uskarcı
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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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Uskarcı, A., Demirörs, O. (2012). A Case Study on Employee Perceptions of Organization Wide Continuous Process Improvement Activities. 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_3

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