Paper Info
Title
Simple indicators for tracking software process improvement progress
Abstract
We know from the software process improvement (SPI) literature that new technologies are often acquired, but not deployed. Fichmand and Kemerer call this phenomenon the assimilation gap. Important prerequisites to SPI success are SPI implementation success and SPI initiative progress. This study presents four simple and practical indicators for SPI initiatives to stay focused on deployment and facilitate SPI initiative progress. These practical indicators are easy to gather, manage and evaluate and they provide an organization with useful information to determine the progress of an SPI initiative. The indicators focus on competence build-up, employee capabilities, process adoption and management commitment. The result shows there are simple and practical indicators for tracking and follow-up SPI initiatives' progress to stay focused on deployment and decrease the assimilation gap.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1007/11908562_8
EuroSPI
Keywords
Field
DocType
software process improvement progress,spi initiative progress,follow-up spi initiative,assimilation gap,spi success,software process improvement,spi implementation success,practical indicator,competence build-up,spi initiative,simple indicator,process adoption
Assimilation (phonology),Management commitment,Software deployment,Emerging technologies,Software development process,Engineering,Process capability index,Operations management,Software development,Project management,Process management
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4257
0302-9743
3-540-47695-4
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
13
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anna Börjesson1272.69