Mjølner's software process improvement: A discussion and strengthening using the SPI Manifesto

Abstract

Mjølner Informatics A/S is a Danish software company with 80 employees; we produce software for a broad range of domains. In this paper, we present our company's software process improvement program. We describe the history, the current status, and the challenges that we are facing. We use the SPI Manifesto's three values and ten principles as a basis for an evaluation of our current practices and as a guide for future improvements. This way we show that the SPI Manifesto can be used as both a benchmark and a checklist for improvements of a SPI organization. Furthermore, we point out the principles and values of the SPI Manifesto that have been "implemented" in our efforts to create Mjølner's software process. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.