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Preventing the Increasing Resistance to Change through a Multi-Model Environment as a Reference Model in Software Process Improvement

Preventing the Increasing Resistance to Change through a Multi-Model Environment as a Reference Model in Software Process Improvement
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Author(s): Mirna Muñoz (Centre of Mathematical Research, Mexico)and Jezreel Mejia (Centre of Mathematical Research, Mexico)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 22
Source title: Agile Estimation Techniques and Innovative Approaches to Software Process Improvement
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Ricardo Colomo-Palacios (Østfold University College, Norway), Jose Antonio Calvo-Manzano Villalón (Universidad Politécnica De Madrid, Spain), Antonio de Amescua Seco (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)and Tomás San Feliu Gilabert (Universidad Politécnica De Madrid, Spain)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5182-1.ch007

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Abstract

Organizational process improvement offers a key opportunity for organizations to become more efficient. As a consequence, the software industry, among others, is more interested in software process improvement. However, one of the most common issues identified when an organization tries to implement a software process improvement initiative is the difficulty that they face in selecting the reference model and its adaptation to the current organization scenario. Moreover, selecting the wrong reference model according to the way the organization works becomes a trigger to increase resistance to change. This chapter presents a methodology that allows the use of a multi-model environment as a reference model so that the organization can select best practices that best fit the way it works to implement software process improvement. The results of the implementation of an improvement using the methodology proposed are also presented.

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