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.
Citation:
Bradford K. Clark, "Quantifying the Effects of Process Improvement on Effort," IEEE Software, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 65-70, Nov./Dec. 2000, doi:10.1109/52.895170