The situational method engineering (SME) literature is surveyed and a synoptic evaluation
presented in the context of formalizing and regularizing the conceptual framework and …

Background: Software Process Improvement (SPI) is intended to improve software
engineering, but can only be effective if used. To improve SPI's uptake, we should …

Based on their own experiences of in-depth case studies of software projects in international
corporations, in this book the authors present detailed practical guidelines on the …

Software engineering concerns methods and techniques to develop large software systems.
The engineering metaphor is used to emphasize a systematic approach to develop systems …

Software engineering is an intensively people-oriented activity, yet too little is known about
how designers, maintainers, requirements analysts and all other types of software engineers …

Software vulnerabilities are weaknesses in source code that can be potentially exploited to
cause loss or harm. While researchers have been devising a number of methods to deal …

Most people we know don't read a book's Preface. So, we'll keep it brief. Why read this
book? Why did we write it? The answer to both these questions is straightforward. We, the …

Different advances have been made in the development of software process improvement
(SPI) standards and models, eg capability maturity model (CMM), more recently CMMI, and …

This paper explores why organizations do not adopt CMMI (Capability Maturity Model
Integration), by analysing two months of sales data collected by an Australian company …

In this article, we present findings from our recent empirical study of the critical success
factors (CSFs) for software process improvement (SPI) implementation with 34 SPI …