Small and medium enterprises are a very important cog in the gears of the world economy.
The software industry in most countries is composed of an industrial scheme that is made up …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to elucidate the emerging landscape of procurement
analytics. This paper focuses on the following questions: what are the current and future …

Requirements engineering is an important component of effective software engineering, yet
more research is needed to demonstrate the benefits to development organizations. While …

Software process assessment (SPA) is an effective tool to understand an organization's
process quality and to explore improvement opportunities. However, the knowledge that …

Software process improvement (SPI) is challenging, particularly for small and medium sized
enterprises. Most existing SPI frameworks are either too expensive to deploy, or do not take …

This paper aims at identifying critical factors affecting organization-wide implementation of
requirements engineering (RE) processes. The paper is based on a broad literature review …

When software development teams modify their requirements engineering process as an
independent variable, they often examine the implications of these process changes by …

For software process improvement–SPI–there are few small organizations using models that
guide the management and deployment of their improvement initiatives. This is largely …

The majority of software development organizations all over the world are small and medium
enterprises. These organizations have realized that it is crucial for their business to improve …

Early planning in many cases is not performed well in new product development (NPD).
Most NPD literature has focused more on the product rather than on the development …