DOING THINGS RIGHT OR DOING THE RIGHT THINGS? - Proposing a Documentation Scheme for Small to Medium Enterprises

Josephine Antoniou, Panagiotis Germanakos, Andreas S. Andreou

2007

Abstract

Coping with the initial and finest systems’ functionality and performance is indeed one of the major problems nowadays, due to the rapid increase and continuous change of customer demands. Hence, it is crucial to move on with a research analysis in an attempt to identify whether documentation, the most reliable source for preserving a software system’s quality over the years, is properly created, updated and used in Small to Medium Enterprises (SME) operating in small EU markets, focusing both on the development process and the maintenance activities. Henceforth, the main objective of this paper is to propose a minimum documentation set required to fulfill both the Software Engineering principles and the SME practical needs by comparing literature suggestions with empirical findings. In further support of our documentation set suggestion, we present and discuss the results of a small survey conducted in nine IT-oriented SME in Cyprus and Greece.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Antoniou J., Germanakos P. and S. Andreou A. (2007). DOING THINGS RIGHT OR DOING THE RIGHT THINGS? - Proposing a Documentation Scheme for Small to Medium Enterprises . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-88-7, pages 408-414. DOI: 10.5220/0002383604080414

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis07,
author={Josephine Antoniou and Panagiotis Germanakos and Andreas S. Andreou},
title={DOING THINGS RIGHT OR DOING THE RIGHT THINGS? - Proposing a Documentation Scheme for Small to Medium Enterprises},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={408-414},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002383604080414},
isbn={978-972-8865-88-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - DOING THINGS RIGHT OR DOING THE RIGHT THINGS? - Proposing a Documentation Scheme for Small to Medium Enterprises
SN - 978-972-8865-88-7
AU - Antoniou J.
AU - Germanakos P.
AU - S. Andreou A.
PY - 2007
SP - 408
EP - 414
DO - 10.5220/0002383604080414