Actual state of implementing software process improvements in software organizations

Nowadays being competitive is a real challenge for software development organizations. In this context, software process improvement is an obvious and logical way to address this increasing need. Unfortunately, not all software process improvements implementations have the expected results, because of the current models and standards are focus on what activities without covering how to implement them. However, the knowledge of how to implement them is required to have a successful implementation of software process improvement initiatives in organizations. This paper presents an analysis of the actual state of implementing software process improvements in organizations. To achieve this a systematic review focus on identifying two key aspects was caaried out as follows: on the one hand, methods, models, methodologies and frameworks that has been developed as support to implement software process improvements. On the other hand a set of organizations´ experiences in the implementation of software process improvement.