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Implementing Process Change in a Software Organization – An Experience Based Study

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Software Process Change (SPW 2006)

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Abstract

No matter how much better our software process becomes, it would not bring us much benefit without being adopted by the targeted process users. Based on the author’s recent industrial working experience at Motorola Global Software Group (GSG) as an organizational technology deployment champion, with the implementation of Motorola’s Enterprise Project Management System in GSG during 2001 – 2003 as a background story, this paper presents a study on the real world challenges in implementing process change in today’s software organizations. Upon reflection of the good practices and the do-differentlies, the paper provides some strategic as well as practical recommend-dations on dealing with the challenges, and points out the key success practices for software process change management.

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  1. School of Informatics and Engineering, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, Australia, 5001

    Shaowen Qin

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  1. Massey University, New Zealand

    Qing Wang

  2. Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway

    Dietmar Pfahl

  3. Portland State University, 631 SW Harrison St., Portland, OR, USA

    David M. Raffo

  4. School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, AL10 9AB, Hatfield, Herts, UK

    Paul Wernick

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Qin, S. (2006). Implementing Process Change in a Software Organization – An Experience Based Study. In: Wang, Q., Pfahl, D., Raffo, D.M., Wernick, P. (eds) Software Process Change. SPW 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3966. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11754305_37

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/11754305_37

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