Paper Info
Title
Navigating Software Process Improvement Projects.
Abstract
Software process improvement (SPI) is one of the most widely used approaches to innovate software organizations. In this study, we identify and compare two different tactics for SPI projects. The first tactic, the supertanker, is inspired by centralist thinking. It is driven by process-push, and it aims for efficient process development and diffusion. The second tactic, the motorboat, is inspired by decentralist thinking. [It facilitates practice-pull, and it aims for adaptive process development and diffusion. Our analysis of 18 SPI projects at Ericsson in Gothenburg shows how the two tactics lead to different practices and outcomes. We discuss on that basis what SPI tactics to use and identify the presence of muddy and unknown waters as the key characteristic that requires motorboat tactics. We suggest that today's changing business environment calls for agile SPI practices that employ adaptive governance mechanisms at the corporate level and combines motorboat tactics with revised supertanker tactics.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1007/0-387-25590-7_4
International Federation for Information Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
software process improvement,process implementation,project tactics,agility
Software Engineering Process Group,Corporate governance,Personal software process,Systems engineering,Computer science,Business environment,Agile software development,Software,Software development process,Team software process,Process management
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
180
1571-5736
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.43
13
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ivan Aaen120316.53
Anna Börjesson2272.69
Lars Mathiassen31477123.85