Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination

1. Front Matter

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2. Organizational Process Improvement 1

   1. Critical Success Factors in Software Process Improvement: A Systematic Review

      • Sussy Bayona, Jose A. Calvo-Manzano, Tomás San Feliu

      Pages 1-12

   2. Integrated Process Improvement Approach: Case Studies in Skype Technologies Ltd.

      • Anneli Tuisk, André Karpištšenko, Marion Lepmets

      Pages 13-25

   3. A Case Study on Employee Perceptions of Organization Wide Continuous Process Improvement Activities

      • Algan Uskarcı, Onur Demirörs

      Pages 26-37

3. SPI in Small and Very Small Enterprises

   1. Using Composition Trees to Validate an Entry Profile of Software Engineering Lifecycle Profiles for Very Small Entities (VSEs)

      • Lian Wen, Terry Rout

      Pages 38-50

   2. Gained Experience by Making Intervention to Improve Software Process in Very Small Organizations

      • Mohammad Zarour, Jean-Marc Desharnais, Abdulrahman Alarifi, Naji Habra, Grégory Cassiers, Antoine Robaeys

      Pages 51-61

   3. A Hierarchy of SPI Activities for Software SMEs: Results from ISO/IEC 12207-Based SPI Assessments

      • Paul Clarke, Rory V. O’Connor, Murat Yilmaz

      Pages 62-74

4. Process Models 1

   1. Innovation, Knowledge- and Technology Transfer Process Capability Model – innoSPICETM

      • Jeremy Besson, Tanja Woronowicz, Antanas Mitasiunas, Michael Boronowsky

      Pages 75-84

   2. A Case Study on Process Composition Using Enterprise SPICE Model

      • Amalia Alvarez, Santiago Matalonga, Tomás San Feliu

      Pages 85-92

   3. Extending ISO/IEC 12207 with Software Product Management: A Process Reference Model Proposal

      • Fritz Stallinger, Robert Neumann

      Pages 93-106

5. SPI in Automotive Software and Security

   1. An Experiment on Merging Quality Assessment in Automotive Domain

      • Morayo Adedjouma, Hubert Dubois, François Terrier, Tarek Kitouni

      Pages 107-117

   2. A Process-Oriented Approach for Functional Safety Implementation in the Automotive Industry

      • Maria Antonieta Garcia, Ernesto Viale, Marco Bellotti, João Carlos Alchieri

      Pages 118-128

   3. Designing a Process Reference Model for Information Security Management Systems

      • Olivier Mangin, Béatrix Barafort, Patrick Heymans, Eric Dubois

      Pages 129-140

6. SPI in Medical and Safety Critical Systems

   1. Barriers to Adopting Agile Practices When Developing Medical Device Software

      • Martin McHugh, Fergal McCaffery, Valentine Casey

      Pages 141-147

   2. Development of a Process Assessment Model for Assessing Medical IT Networks against IEC 80001-1

      • Silvana Togneri MacMahon, Fergal McCaffery, Sherman Eagles, Frank Keenan, Marion Lepmets, Alain Renault

      Pages 148-160

   3. Traceability-Why Do It?

      • Gilbert Regan, Fergal McCaffery, Kevin McDaid, Derek Flood

      Pages 161-172

7. Organizational Process Improvement 2

   1. Improving the Tendering Process through the Deployment of PMBOK®

      • Antònia Mas, Antoni Lluís Mesquida

      Pages 173-185

   2. FIRST: Common-Sense Process Scopes for Starting a Process Improvement Program

      • Luigi Buglione, Fergal McCaffery, Jean Carlo Rossa Hauck, Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim

      Pages 186-197

   3. A Systematic Approach to the Comparison of Roles in the Software Development Processes

      • Murat Yilmaz, Rory V. O’Connor, Paul Clarke

      Pages 198-209

8. Process Models 2

   1. Framework for Usage of Multiple Software Process Models

      • Stasys Peldzius, Saulius Ragaisis

      Pages 210-221

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination, SPICE 2012, held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, in May 2012. The 21 revised full papers presented and 14 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on organizational process improvement; SPI in small and very small enterprises; process models; SPI in automotive software and security; SPI in medical and safety critical systems; short papers.

• agile methods
• knowledge-sharing networks
• process optimization
• risk management
• software product lines
• algorithm analysis and problem complexity

• Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca (Illes Balears), Spain

  Antonia Mas, Antoni Mesquida

• Software Quality Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

  Terry Rout

• Lero, the Irish Software Engineering, Research Centre, Dublin City University, School of Computing, Dublin, Ireland

  Rory V. O’Connor

• InterSPICE Ltd, Cambridge, UK

  Alec Dorling

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