Evaluation of software process improvement in small organizations

Abstract

At the domestic and regional level most organizations willing to participate in software development projects at international off-shore markets operates at small or medium organizational sizes and therefore isn't included by the organizational scales referred at the typical SPI bibliography. A systemic model is then implemented aiming to get an initial understanding over the behavior of the different variables involved, their contribution to the improvement effort, outcome sensibility to model parameters, the systemic relations at large and the limits derived from the holistic interaction of all.