Rapid Software Process Assessment to Promote Innovation in Smes
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Products and processes innovation is a key-topic for the competitiveness of small and medium enterprises operating in the Information Technology field. The ESPINODE network links 18 European projects with the common goals of diffusing Software Process Improvement concepts and supporting the enterprises already involved in improvement experiments. This paper describes the methodology developed by the TOPS project, the ESPINODE for Central Italy, to use rapid software process assessment as a way to promote innovation. Rapid assessments are offered as a free service to small and medium enterprises that join TOPS as target enterprises. The offer of an assessment is a powerful way to both diffuse software best practices and propose actual improvement paths to the enterprises. Assessment data are collected by TOPS for a survey about software process maturity in Italy: the paper reports the first results of this survey.
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