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This talk will review the benefits that have been reported for software process improvement and how different types of benefits emerge at different stages of maturity. This staging will be explained through changes occurring in the development process as an organization matures and how they enable cascading benefits over time. Improvement data will be presented from companies such as Ericsson, Telcordia, Boeing, Raytheon, and Tata Consultancy. Causes of failure in software process improvement will be described. Problems in rigorous evaluation of process improvement benefits will be discussed. After the conference, copies of the presentation can be obtained at www.teraquest.com <http://www.teraquest.com> .
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Curtis, B. (2000). Keynote Address: The Cascading Benefits of Software Process Improvement. In: Bomarius, F., Oivo, M. (eds) Product Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1840. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45051-1_1
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