Light measurement model to assess software development process improvement

Software development companies in Colombia face a series of problems such as building software in an artisanal, empirical and disorganized way. For this reason, it is necessary that they implement projects to improve their development processes, since ensuring the quality of the products, through the improvement of their software processes, is a step that they must take to be in a position to compete in the market National and international. Implementing process improvement models is not enough to say if a company is really making a profit, definitely one of the first actions in an improvement project is to determine the current status of the process. Only by measuring it is possible to know the status of a process objectively, and only thanks to this can strategies and solutions be planned about the improvements to be made and according to the objectives of the organization. This article proposes a lightweight model of measures to evaluate a software process improvement project, which seeks to help Colombian software development companies determine if the improvement process they are implementing is being effective in relation to the objectives and goals established at the beginning of the project. This is carried out through the use of measures that allow to evaluate the process of improvement of its processes, facilitating the characterization of the current practices of the company and the identification of the weaknesses, strengths and abilities of the processes that are carried out within of this, allowing to control and avoid the causes of low quality and deviations encostos or in planning.

• Autores: Vásquez, Diana; Pardo, César; Collazos, César A; Pino, Francisco J
• Fecha de publicación: 2010
• Institución: Universidad EAFIT
• Repositorio: Repositorio EAFIT
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repository.eafit.edu.co:10784/14486
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/10784/14486
• Palabra clave: Software Programming And Engineering; Software Process Improvement (Spi); Msmes; Process Measurement; Measurement Model; Indicators; Programación E Ingeniería De Software; Mejora De Procesos De Software (Spi); Mipymes; Medición Del Proceso; Modelo De Medidas; Indicadores
• License: Copyright (c) 2010 Diana Vásquez, César Pardo, César A collazos, Francisco J Pino