Software process improvement

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This conference proceedings covers various aspects of software process improvement, focusing on enforcement, alignment, and tailoring of processes. It discusses the introduction of the Rational Unified Process and offers an industrial example of maintaining a large process model aligned with a process standard. The content highlights synergies between common criteria and process improvement, with a particular emphasis on small and medium enterprises (SMEs). It explores methods for determining practice achievement in project management within SMEs and analyzes the perceived value of CMMI practices. The proceedings also delve into lightweight software process modeling for small companies and present empirical studies on software process improvement. Additionally, it includes a longitudinal case study on organizing improvement work and experiments with release planning methods for web application development. New avenues for SPI are investigated, including legal risk management strategies and innovative tools like iCharts for value management. The role of organizational learning through project postmortem reviews is examined, alongside methodologies for modeling software processes as adaptive work systems. The performance of software complexity metrics in open-source projects is compared, and critical success factors for SPI initiatives in the Brazilian software industry are identified. Finally, the impact of component-level tes