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A large majority of enterprises worldwide are VSEs (Very Small Entities). Like for any business, VSEs in the IT business sector face a challenging and strong competition. Adopting “best practices”, standardizing processes and obtaining an international recognition or certification, are key factors for success. This paper introduces a new and cost/effective alternative for international recognition of small SMEs (VSEs), as good quality software producers. The new standard is VSE tailor-made, lightweight, certifiable and compatible with traditional models such as CMMI [2], ISO330xx, or ISO 9000. New standards are on their way to internationally harmonize these conformity assessments and certificates for VSEs.
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Rodríguez-Dapena, P., Buitrago-Botero, M.F. (2015). How to Certify the Very Small Entity Software Processes Using ISO/IEC 29110. In: Rout, T., O’Connor, R., Dorling, A. (eds) Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination. SPICE 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 526. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19860-6_20
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