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Quantifying the Effects on Effort of Process Improvement

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Bradford K. ClarkAuthors Info & Claims

IEEE Software, Volume 17, Issue 6

Pages 65 - 70

https://doi.org/10.1109/52.895170

Published: 01 November 2000 Publication History

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When organizations make many improvements con-currently, managers have no way of deter-mining how much improvement is due to process maturity versus other factors. Using a 161-project sample, this article isolates the effects on effort of process maturity versus other effects.

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