Adept – A Software Process Appraisal Method for Small to Medium-sized Software Development Organisations

McCaffery, Fergal and Richardson, Ita and Coleman, Gerry (2006) Adept – A Software Process Appraisal Method for Small to Medium-sized Software Development Organisations. In: European Software Process Improvement and Innovation Conference 2006, EuroSPI06, October 2006, Finland.

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Abstract

In this paper we describe the appraisal method that was developed by Lero (the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre) and Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) to assess software processes within small to medium-sized Irish software organisations that have little or no experience of software process improvement (SPI) programmes. We developed a method, called Adept, through investigating the key factors that contribute to an effective software assessment method, reflecting the desires of Irish SMEs in terms of providing a “manageable” approach to SPI and through expanding upon the Express Process Appraisal (EPA) method [1] to fulfil these objectives.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Assessment method; Small to Medium-sized Enterpirses (SMEs); Software Process Improvement (SPI)
Subjects:	Computer Science
Research Centres:	Regulated Software Research Centre
Depositing User:	Sonya Grimley
Date Deposited:	02 Mar 2012 09:16
Last Modified:	11 Nov 2014 16:10
URI:	https://eprints.dkit.ie/id/eprint/173

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