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MEDEPRO: A Method to Deploy Processes Focused on People

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Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2012)

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Nowadays, organizations need to respond to customer demands with quality products and services. Methodologies and process models have been developed to help organizations to achieve these objectives. However, despite the efforts of organizations, they still come up against difficulties in their deployment and the processes are not institutionalized. Difficulty in process institutionalization arises due to the fact that most of these efforts focus on technical issues, and people issues are ignored. This paper presents the critical success factors to take into account in the process deployment, and a process deployment method to be used in software projects. These highlight the importance of having an effective process deployment strategy to adopt, use and institutionalize the process. The results of a case study are included.

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  1. Departamento Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos e Ingeniería del Software Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28660 Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, España

    Sussy Bayona, Jose A. Calvo-Manzano, Gonzalo Cuevas & Tomás San Feliu

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  1. Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Karlsplatz 13, P.O. Box A-1040, Vienna, Austria

    Dietmar Winkler

  2. Lero, The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

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Bayona, S., Calvo-Manzano, J.A., Cuevas, G., San Feliu, T. (2012). MEDEPRO: A Method to Deploy Processes Focused on People. In: Winkler, D., O’Connor, R.V., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 301. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31199-4_2

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