Understanding the Perception of Very Small Software Companies towards the Adoption of Process Standards

Basri, Shuib and O'Connor, Rory V. (2010) Understanding the Perception of Very Small Software Companies towards the Adoption of Process Standards. In: System, Software and Service Process Improvement. Springer-Verlag, Germany, pp. 268-279. ISBN 1865-0929

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Abstract

This paper is concerned with understanding the issues that affect the
adoption of software process standards by Very Small Entities (VSEs), their
needs from process standards and their willingness to engage with the new
ISO/IEC 29110 standard in particular. In order to achieve this goal, a series of
industry data collection studies were undertaken with a collection of VSEs. A
twin track approach of a qualitative data collection (interviews and focus
groups) and quantitative data collection (questionnaire) were undertaken. Data
analysis was being completed separately and the final results were merged,
using the coding mechanisms of grounded theory. This paper serves as a
roadmap for both researchers wishing to understand the issues of process
standards adoption by very small companies and also for the software process
standards community.

Item Type: Book Section
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software
Departments / MOR / COE: Departments > Computer Information Sciences
Depositing User: Dr Shuib Basri
Date Deposited: 04 Jan 2011 00:32
Last Modified: 19 Jan 2017 08:24
URI: http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/3794

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