MaTGeC: hacia un marco de trabajo para la gestion cuantitativa de procesos de desarrollo de software en pequeñas organizacione

Abstract

The small software development companies have difficulties in adopting practices about quantitative process management offered by reference models such as CMMI-DEV or ISO/IEC 15504 because it generates expensive investments in long-term periods of time. However, if they do not incorporate at least the essential practices, they won't be able to obtain processes with less variability in its performance and that can be statistically under control which directly impacts the projects results because they would allow making better estimates. In this article, it is presented a general proposal of a framework for quantitative process management in very small entities (MaT-GeC) that offers a guide to monitor and assess specific processes selected by the organization. Moreover, it is indicated the components that conform it, along with the practices, activities, roles and essential work products for that this kind of organizations to incorporate the quantitative management fundamentals in their more critical tasks.

Keywords

• quantitative process management
• software engineering
• software development
• small entities