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Software and Web Process Improvement – Predicting SPI Success for Small and Medium Companies

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Advances in Software Engineering (ASEA 2010)

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This study revisits our previous work in SPI success factors for small and medium companies [26] in order to investigate separately SPI success factors for Web companies that only develop Web applications (Web development companies (12 companies and 41 respondents)) from SPI success factors for Web companies that develop Web as well as software applications (Web & software development companies (8 companies and 31 respondents)). We have replicated Dyba’s theoretical model of SPI success factors [12] in [26], and later also in this paper. However, the study described herein differs from [12] and [26] in that Dyba used data from both software and Web companies, and Sulayman and Mendes used data from Web companies that developed Web applications and sometimes also software applications by employing quantitative assessment techniques. The comparison was also performed against the existing theoretical model of SPI success factors replicated in this study. The results indicate that SPI success factors contribute in different ratios for both types of companies.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, The University of Auckland, 92019, New Zealand

    Muhammad Sulayman & Emilia Mendes

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  1. Hannam University, Daejeon, South Korea

    Tai-hoon Kim

  2. Catholic University of Daegu, 330, Hayangup, Kyungsan, Kyungbuk, Korea

    Haeng-Kon Kim

  3. King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Muhammad Khurram Khan

  4. University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, MI, USA

    Akingbehin Kiumi

  5. National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

    Wai-chi Fang

  6. University of Warsaw, and Infobright, Warsaw, Poland

    Dominik Ślęzak

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Sulayman, M., Mendes, E. (2010). Software and Web Process Improvement – Predicting SPI Success for Small and Medium Companies. In: Kim, Th., Kim, HK., Khan, M.K., Kiumi, A., Fang, Wc., Ślęzak, D. (eds) Advances in Software Engineering. ASEA 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 117. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17578-7_13

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