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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><i><span
style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C00000'>Towards
the identification of the influence of SPI on the successful evolution of
software SMEs<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#00B0F0'>Invited
speaker:</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#00B0F0'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#00B0F0'>Paul
Clarke</span><span style='color:#00B0F0'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'>Thursday
11<sup>th</sup> February / 11-12 / LRG032</span></b><span style='color:#7030A0'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB>ABSTRACT </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>Very Small Enterprises (VSEs) - those
with 25 or fewer employees - have a pressing need to develop their products
efficiently, effectively, and with high quality. Quality orientated process
approaches and standards are maturing and gaining acceptance in many companies.
There are many potential benefits of using standards. From the VSE perspective,
the benefits that certification can provide include: increased competitiveness,
greater customer confidence and satisfaction, greater software product quality,
increased sponsorship for process improvement, decreased development risk,
facilitation of marketing, and higher potential to export. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>However, at a time when software
quality is becoming key to competitive advantage, the use of ISO/IEC systems
and software engineering standards remains limited to a few of the most popular
ones. Our research shows that VSEs can find it difficult to relate ISO/IEC
standards to their business needs and to justify the application of the
standards to their business practices.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>To help VSEs meet their needs in
the global economy, ISO/IEC 29110 Software Engineering Lifecycle Profiles for
Very Small Entities, will emerge soon onto the software engineering standards
landscape to help these very small organizations to understand and use an
appropriate set of the concepts, processes and practices proposed in the
international software engineering standards. Lero, has been a key player in
the development of this new international standard.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>This talk will put ISO standards
in context, explain the evolution of ISO 29110 and elucidate the Lero
involvement in international efforts to pilot this standard prior to its formal
launch.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB>BIO</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>Dr. Rory O’Connor is a Senior
Lecturer in Software Engineering at Dublin City University and has been a
researcher with Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre since its
inception. He is also the Irish head of delegation to ISO/IEC JCT1/SC7. He
received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from City University (London). His
research interests are centred on the processes whereby software intensive
systems are designed, implemented and managed. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>This talk can be viewed at </span><span
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color:black'><a href="http://connect.lero.ie/paulclarke/">http://connect.lero.ie/paulclarke/</a></span></b></span><span
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style='font-size:16.0pt'>If you would like to attend please RSVP before
February 8<sup>th</sup><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>to <a
href="mailto:katherine.martin@lero.ie">katherine.martin@lero.ie</a> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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