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ASWEC
2001
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Process Improvement in Four Small Software Companies
For many small software companies, full-scale software process improvement (SPI) initiatives are often out of reach due to prohibitive costs and lack of SPI knowledge. However, to...
Aileen Cater-Steel
INFSOF
2007
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15 years 7 months ago
Software process improvement as emergent change: A structurational analysis
This paper presents a framework that draws on Structuration theory and dialectical hermeneutics to explicate the dynamics of software process improvement (SPI) in a packaged softw...
I. Allison, Yasmin Merali
COMGEO
2011
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Improved bounds for cops-and-robber pursuit
We prove that n cops can capture (that is, some cop can get less than unit distance from) a robber in a continuous square region with side length less than √ 5n and hence that n/...
Laurent Alonso, Edward M. Reingold
ISPW
2010
IEEE
16 years 3 days ago
How to Welcome Software Process Improvement and Avoid Resistance to Change
Pressures for more complex products, customer dissatisfaction and problems related to cost and schedule overruns increase the need for effective management response and for improve...
Daniela Cristina Cascini Peixoto, Vitor A. Batista...
AIPS
2004
15 years 8 months ago
Task Swapping for Schedule Improvement: A Broader Analysis
In this paper we analyze and extend a recently developed "task-swapping procedure" for improving schedules in oversubscribed situations. In such situations, there are ta...
Laurence A. Kramer, Stephen F. Smith