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Organizational Analysis of Small Software Organizations: Framework and Case Study

Organizational Analysis of Small Software Organizations: Framework and Case Study
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Author(s): Jesús Zavala-Ruiz (Metropolitan Autonomous University – Iztapalapa, Mexico)
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 41
Source title: Software Process Improvement for Small and Medium Enterprises: Techniques and Case Studies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Hanna Oktaba (Nacional Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico)and Mario Piattini (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-906-9.ch001

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Abstract

The intention of this chapter is twofold. On the one hand, I illustrate the complexity of the small software organization, because it is not a reduced version of a large company. Rather, it has very important advantages and challenges. Then, I use organization studies as a multi-disciplinary and multi-paradigmatic link between disciplines, able to reconcile those distinct visions. On the other hand, I open the discussion on the state of crisis affecting software engineering as a discipline. For that, I try to sensitize the reader to the facts surrounding this crisis, but also to the most promising alternative, which is the redefinition of software engineering as a discipline. One of the possible options for that paradigmatic change requires a multi-disciplinary orientation because their positivist roots and the adoption of a constructivist ontology and epistemology facilitating the inclusion of visions non-qualified for a systematic, disciplined and quantitative approach. My position is that only by opening up this discussion is it possible to begin transforming and consolidating software engineering as a strengthened and more terrain-attached discipline because of its powerful theoretical and practical explanatory capacity.

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