IAMPS: An process to support the MPS.BR implementation together with agile methods

The MPS.BR is a program to help improve the processes of software development mainly in small and medium-sized organizations, however it does not determine how processes should be defined to reach a certain degree of maturity. From another perspective, there is growing acceptance and records of success in the use of agile methods, mainly in MSEs (micro and small-sized enterprises of software development). Thus, it can be considered that both approaches can be used together to enable the implementation of lightweight processes and easily managed. In this context, this paper presents a process to support the implementation of MPS.BR together with agile practices in MSEs, called IAMPS, and discusses the main results obtained with its application in an initial project of software process improvement deployment in the public sector.