Managing organizational change for software process improvement

Software process improvement has become a necessity for software intensive businesses for their competitive performance. However, managing change and revitalizing the organization for software process improvement is a considerable challenge. This chapter presents an analysis of the factors that enable and inhibit software process improvement, and presents a model and recommendations for successfully bringing about organizational change for software process improvement.

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