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What Makes Software Process Improvement So Hard?

by Karl E. Wiegers

If you cannot truthfully say, "I am building software today as well as software can ever be built," you should be looking for a better way. This is the essence of software process improvement (SPI). Despite the apparent simplicity, many software organizations struggle to achieve significant and lasting improvements in the way they conduct their projects.

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What Makes Software Process Improvement So Hard? 6 January 1999

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