Title :
MPS.BR: A Tale of Software Process Improvement and Performance Results in the Brazilian Software Industry
Author :
Santos, Gleison ; Kalinowski, Marcos ; Rocha, Ana Regina ; Travassos, Guilherme Horta ; Weber, Kival Chaves ; Antonioni, José Antonio
Author_Institution :
UNIRIO, Fed. Univ. of Rio de Janeiro State, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
fDate :
Sept. 29 2010-Oct. 2 2010
Abstract :
In December 2003 a Brazilian nationwide program was created aiming at improving software processes. The MPS.BR Program is responsible for a great evolution in the software development scenario in Brazil by providing the means to support software process improvement initiatives based on the MPS Model. In 2008 a project named iMPS was launched to enable the analysis of the Performance Results of organizations that adopted the MPS Model. This paper describes some of the findings of the studies that have already been conducted. Preliminary evidences show improvement trends regarding cost, quality, schedule, and productivity, especially for those organizations that adopted the MPS Model for continuous improvement purposes.
Keywords :
DP industry; continuous improvement; software houses; software process improvement; Brazilian software industry; MPS.BR program; continuous improvement; iMPS; software development; software performance; software process improvement; Biological system modeling; IEC standards; ISO standards; Organizations; Productivity; Software; Standards organizations; Performance Results; Return on Investment; Software Process Improvement;
Conference_Titel :
Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC), 2010 Seventh International Conference on the
Conference_Location :
Porto
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8539-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4241-6
DOI :
10.1109/QUATIC.2010.75
