%X This paper is concerned with understanding the issues that affect the adoption of software process standards by Very Small Entities (VSEs), their needs from process standards and their willingness to engage with the new ISO/IEC 29110 standard in particular. In order to achieve this goal, a series of industry data collection studies were undertaken with a collection of VSEs. A twin track approach of a qualitative data collection (interviews and focus groups) and quantitative data collection (questionnaire) were undertaken. Data analysis was being completed separately and the final results were merged, using the coding mechanisms of grounded theory. This paper serves as a roadmap for both researchers wishing to understand the issues of process standards adoption by very small companies and also for the software process standards community. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
%K Coding mechanism; Data analysis; Data collection; Focus groups; Grounded theory; ISO/IEC; Process standards; Qualitative data; Quantitative data; Roadmap; Small companies; Small software companies; Software process; SPI; VSE, Data reduction; Industry; Software design; Standards, Data acquisition
%O cited By 42; Conference of 17th European Conference on Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement, EuroSPI 2010 ; Conference Date: 1 September 2010 Through 3 September 2010; Conference Code:81749
%L scholars1157
%J Communications in Computer and Information Science
%D 2010
%R 10.1007/978-3-642-15666-3₁₄
%T Understanding the perception of very small software companies towards the adoption of process standards
%V 99 CCI
%A S. Basri
%A R.V. O'Connor
%C Grenoble
%P 153-164