Software Process Improvement (SPI) Expert in Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs)

Abstract

Software Process Improvement defines the identification of the current state-of-practice of processes within an organization and then improving it. Software Process Improvement is ever lasting, never ending and ever changing process. Software Process Improvement begins when a software development organization just begins to mature and it realizes the need to improve its processes. Some of the issues which force the organization to undergo software process improvement are customer dissatisfaction, inadequate software quality, inability to deliver on time and within budget, and excessive rework. A software organization regardless of their size wish to succeed on the market by providing software of high quality together with related services, support, communication with customers etc. Hence, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) can also dream of becoming a large organization in future if it can simply add standardized processes and work on software process improvement initiatives. The small and medium software organizations do not have any specific software process improvement models. As their capacity to handle the cost of software improvement models like the CMM, P-CMM, SPICE and so forth are limited, they are not able to improve on their processes using SPI models. The SMEs continue to build product in random and unorganized manner which finally lead to a compromised product in quality.

SPI Expert in SMEs is an iterative model as well as an incremental model specially for small and medium software organizations.SPI Expert is a dedicated SPI Model for SMEs. SPI expert concentrates on the organization’s choice of processes those are given in support set. SPI expert contains

SPI Expert Support Set which inherently is two staged model: The Basic Stage and the Elaborated Stage. These stages are actually materialized in given support set. And the SPI Expert Support Set is embedded in Process Flow. The two step approach will enable SMEs to improve and gain expertise in their process sets in stages.