Navigating Software Process Improvement Projects

Aaen, Ivan; Börjesson, Anna; Mathiassen, Lars

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“…One thing common to the literature referenced above, irrespective of their approaches is that organizational design has to do with careful integration of organizational attributes and elements for the purpose of achieving internal and external coherence, other wise known as fit, and for information sharing facilitation. Aaen's (2002) position that software development is a "highly complex undertaking characterized by strong interdependencies among tasks and uncertainties" (p. 380) points to the fact that software development organizations also require organizational fits that reinforce information processing across various organizational levels. Consequently, studies by Pourkomeylian (2006) and Halloran (2004) provided insights into how SPI can be hampered by knowledge creation and management capability of software development organizations.…”

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“…A good example is Aaen (2002) who identified the role of SPI as infrastructure and culture building. His argument relied only on concepts available in knowledge management and organizational design literature without making reference to corporate ideology, a factor that breeds organizational design and culture.…”

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“…Aaen (2002) for instance, defined SPI as being "about changing software organizations populated by technical and highly specialized people working with complex tasks, using a variety of methods and tools" (p. 380). Aaen further describes SPI as comprising of activities that lead to the design of the architecture of software process which helps in establishing and realizing a future vision and developing tools to support the software process.…”

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“…However, the evolution of normative models such as the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), SPICE, and CMMI has evolved a thinking pattern among SPI practitioners that makes them initiate SPI as an organizational wide program. As a result, researchers have tried to use elements of organizational and behavioral sciences to evaluate factors that impact SPI, how these factors develop into SPI risks and how they can be managed (Aaen, 2002;Debou & Kuntzmann-Combelles, 2000;Iversen, Mathiassen, & Nielsen, 2004;Ngwenyama & Nielsen, 2003;Ngwenyama & Norbjerb, 2010).…”

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Systematic and Grounded Theory Literature Reviews of Software Process Improvement Phenomena: Implications for IS Research

2013

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Over the years, there seems to be little achievement made with regards to effective measurement of software development organizations' capabilities, especially with regards to their effective implementation of Software Process Improvement (SPI) programs. This problem has been ascribed to the limitations which the capability models have in terms of accurately identifying organizational variables which will appropriately serve as capability measures. This study, therefore, argues that variables such as knowledge economy, corporate ideology, organizational design, quality management, and performance management can evolve in IS research as primary measures required to accurately measure software development organizations' capabilities. The methods that were adopted are the grounded theory literature review and the systematic literature review methods. The grounded theory literature review allowed the authors to carry out a rigorous review of the literature on subjects, namely, knowledge economy, organizational sciences, quality management, and performance management, with the aim of pointing out the need for a conceptual shift in SPI research. The systematic literature review was used to descriptively analyze 14 IS based articles published in five hand-picked IS research publication outlets. We found out that there is need for IS based SPI researchers to study knowledge economy, corporate ideology, organizational design, quality manMaterial published as part of this publication, either on-line or in print, is copyrighted by the Informing Science Institute. Permission to make digital or paper copy of part or all of these works for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that the copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage AND that copies 1) bear this notice in full and 2) give the full citation on the first page. It is permissible to abstract these works so long as credit is given. To copy in all other cases or to republish or to post on a server or to redistribute to lists requires specific permission and payment of a fee. Contact Publisher@InformingScience.org to request redistribution permission.Systematic and Grounded Theory Literature Reviews 250 agement and performance management as intertwined variables and not as separate variables as currently being practiced in the field. We also found out that IS based SPI research is multidisciplinary in nature and are mainly carried out as literature reviews and action research. We recommend that IS researchers should endeavour to bring together these variables since they influence one anther in order to be able to carry out more formidable analysis of the issues affecting the measurement of software development organizations' capability and how it affect the implementation of SPI programs. This research contributed theoretically to the IS SPI literature.

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“…Nielsen and Nørbjerg (2001) emphasize the need to focus on social and organizational issues in SPI. Aaen (2002) argues for helping software developers help themselves rather than having change agents drive SPI. Börjesson and Mathiassen (2003a) argue that SPI initiatives benefit from spending more of their effort in the later phases of the IDEAL model where focus is on deployment.…”

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Organisational Dynamics in the Software Process Improvement: The Agility Challenge

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Mathiassen

IT Innovation for Adaptability and Competitiveness

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It is a challenge to keep up momentum in Software Process Improvement (SPI) during organizational changes. SPI initiatives get interrupted, are sidetracked and progress slowly when changes occur in the target organization. This paper explores this crucial relation between SPI initiatives and the dynamics of the organization to be changed. The study builds on longitudinal data from the introduction of a new approach to requirements management into a software unit within Ericsson. Our focus is on the challenges involved in managing the SPI initiative as a sequence of organizational changes occurs in software development. We discuss the findings from this study in relation to the SPI literature and the literature on organizational agility and software agility. Our research indicates that SPI can benefit from agility ideas if the innovations are integrated well with other agility initiatives within the software organization. We therefore suggest that there is a need to coordinate and align the software agility movement with SPI issues to arrive at a comprehensive and holistic understanding of how software organizations can respond effectively to dynamics in their environment. INTRODUCTIONSoftware Process Improvement (SPI) has been adopted by many organizations as a strategy to enhance their capability to deliver qualitative software (Humphrey, 1989;Grady, 1997;Mathiassen et. al, 2002). Although very successful cases of improvement have been reported Haley, 1996;Diaz and Sligo, 1997;Larsen and Kautz, 1997) there isAbstract:

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Agile Process Improvement: Diagnosis and Planning to Improve Teamwork

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Moe

2011

Systems, Software and Service Process Improvement

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Navigating Software Process Improvement Projects

Abstract: S o f f a r e process mprovenzerlt (SPI) is one of the most widel}, used ap

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Systematic and Grounded Theory Literature Reviews of Software Process Improvement Phenomena: Implications for IS Research

Systematic and Grounded Theory Literature Reviews of Software Process Improvement Phenomena: Implications for IS Research

Organisational Dynamics in the Software Process Improvement: The Agility Challenge

Agile Process Improvement: Diagnosis and Planning to Improve Teamwork

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