Monitoring the adoption of SPI-related best practices. An experience report

TL;DR

This paper reports on the practical experience of adopting SPI-related best practices within a software process improvement initiative, highlighting challenges and insights gained.

Contribution

It provides an empirical account of implementing best practices in a real-world setting, offering valuable lessons for similar SPI efforts.

Findings

Adoption of best practices requires significant effort and organizational change.

Real-world experience reveals common challenges in implementing SPI recommendations.

Observations suggest tailored approaches improve adoption success.

Abstract

Software Process Improvement requires significant effort related not only to the identification of relevant issues and providing an adequate response to them, but also to the implementation and adoption of the changes. Best practices provide recommendations to software teams on how to address the identified objectives in practice, based on aggregated experience and knowledge. In the paper, we present the GEANT experience and observations from the process of adopting thebest practices, and present the setting we have been using.