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Success Factors Leading to the Sustainability of Software Process Improvement Efforts

Authors:
Natalja Nikitina
Mira Kajko-Mattsson

Keywords: SPI project health, lessons

Abstract:
Despite the fact that many software organizations put a lot of effort into software process improvement, they still do not always succeed in sustaining the improvement results. We believe that this is due to the fact that current software process improvement frameworks and/or models do not provide any aid in form of a list of success factors that primarily contribute to the sustainability of SPI efforts. In this paper, we compile thirty two SPI success factors as elicited in theoretical and empirical studies. Our primary goal is to aid software companies in defining, planning, monitoring and improving their SPI efforts. Our secondary goal is to create a basis for identifying SPI health attributes which, in turn, would allow software companies to determine the health of their SPI projects.

Pages: 581 to 588

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: October 23, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-165-6

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from October 23, 2011 to October 29, 2011