Recomendações de melhoria baseadas na cultura organizacional para iniciativas em melhoria de processo de software

Abstract

Organizational culture is one of the most important success factors of an organization because it provides both the supporting background and the strategic direction. In the context of software organizations, organizational culture has been observed in scientific research as one of the critical factors for successful implementation of software process improvement initiatives. Therefore, it is important to analyze the impact of organizational culture on the adoption/ implementation of these initiatives. Thus, the scientific methodology adopted to conduct this research was based on secondary and primary studies. Firstly, this work identified several typological models for the analysis of organizational culture and extracted the key organizational values that comprise the selected typological models. From the results, we carried out a survey on which organizational values are important to define the organizational culture of a software organization, and the level of importance of each value to a software organization that is involved in an initiative for software process improvement. In this research, we also identified recommendations for improvement, based on organizational culture, in the context of software process improvement initiatives. Nonetheless, a new survey, conducted with experts on software process improvement, was performed to relate these recommendations for improvement with the identified organizational values. From the results obtained in these studies, we developed a conceptual framework that based on the analysis of organizational culture (through organizational values) obtained from a software organization, suggests recommendations for improvement that can be implemented in the organization aiming at positively supporting the implementation of software process improvement initiatives. Finally, to evaluate the proposed framework, we conducted a qualitative investigation with appraisers and consultants of software process improvement initiatives. The results suggest that the proposed framework contributes to understanding software organization organizational values and implementing software process improvement initiatives.