OWPL: A light model & methodology for initiating software process improvement

For many years, industry and research communities have studied Software Process Improvement in organizations. However, that research applied mainly to large organizations. In 1998, the University of Namur (Belgium) began a research project on Software Process Improvement in small settings (fewer than 60 employees), mainly in Wallonia to begin with, where there has been clear improvement. Experiments were then conducted in several dozen organizations in three countries by the ÉTS (École de technologie supérieure, University of Québec, (Canada)), and the CETIC (Centre d'Excellence en Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication). The research remains ongoing at this time.