Software Process Improvement Defined
Ivan Aaen · VBN Forskningsportal (Aalborg Universitet) · 2002
This paper argues in favor of the development of explanatory theory on software process improvement. The last one or two decades commitment to prescriptive approaches in software process improvement literature may be of limited use to practitioners if they are flooded by prescriptions but left without theory to help them understand these prescriptions and their underlying rationalities. It is proposed that prescriptions be supplemented by SPI theory evaluating prescriptive approaches and informing improvement practice with a focus on the software process policymaking and process control aspects of improvement efforts.