Very Small Enterprises (VSE) Quality Process Assessment

The software industry is an important economic activity in industrial countries. Nowadays the investment in this field measured in millions of dollars, the IT organizations varies in their size and role. An area of concern to IT organizations is implementing and adopting Software Process Improvement (SPI) models. For many years, researchers have developed several SPI model, most of which like CMM, CMMI and SPICE (ISO/IEC 15504) have been developed to fulfill large organizations needs, but they do not take into consideration the Very Small Enterprises (VSE) needs. This has encouraged a number of researchers to study the SPI for VSE and try to find suitable models that fit to VSE needs. Our document explores the main processes concerning the VSE to discover which processes are the weakest, which we found to be the quality assurance, and shed light on it. This was shown by three rounds of consecutive assessments with about 10 VSE assessments each time. It confirms previous studies that have already done [4] [10] [11] [14].