Improving Processes in Small Settings

The Software Engineering Institute is forming the IPSS Working Group, a three-year project to collaboratively explore the unique challenges of improving processes in small settings. (IPSS is short for "Improving Processes in Small Settings.")

According to the Small Business Administration, small businesses in the U.S. account for 99 percent of all employer firms, employ 50 percent of all private sector employees, and hold 41 percent of all high technology jobs. Small businesses are recognized as a critical component of the US economy. In other countries, small business is the economy. With the global marketplace expanding into regions previously not considered competitive, regional support centers and governments around the world are approaching the SEI looking for ways to propel their small software and systems businesses to a globally competitive status. Likewise, large organizations with small businesses in their supply chain are approaching the SEI for help.

With IPSS, the SEI seeks to increase awareness of process excellence as an enabler to global competitiveness, demonstrate effective approaches to process improvement for the small business, and provide tools for process improvement that are easily applied by small businesses. To participate, contact the IPSS Working Group.

Posted by Jon Erickson at 08:50 AM  Permalink