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Modeling and improving an industrial software process

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 1995
The paper discusses the problems that a software development organization must address in order to assess and improve its software processes. In particular, the authors are involved in a project aiming at assessing and improving the current practice and the quality manual of the Business Unit Telecommunications for Defense (BUTD) of a large ...
SERGIO BANDINELLI, ALFONSO FUGGETTA, LUIGI LAVAZZA, Picco, Gian Pietro, MAURIZIO LOI   +4 more
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Software process improvement at Raytheon

IEEE Software, 1996
Over the last eight years, Raytheon mounted a sustained effort to improve its software development processes. The author describes the organizational structure and activities that made these processes more productive and predictable while raising software quality.
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An adventure in software process improvement

2005
Software process improvement concepts, applied in an effort to increase productivity and quality in industry, are also needed in the academic environment. By teaching process improvement we can prepare students for the future and simultaneously improve our own understanding and teaching of the software engineering.
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A Systems Perspective on Software Process Improvement

2002
Software process improvement often lacks strong links to project management and control activities, which are concerned with identifying the need of process change and triggering improvement initiatives. Project management, on the other hand, often fails at selecting appropriate software engineering methods and technology that help to ensure project ...
Andreas Birk 0001, Dietmar Pfahl
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OO software process improvement with metrics

Proceedings Sixth International Software Metrics Symposium (Cat. No.PR00403), 2003
Good software engineering requires a process and a means by which to measure both the success of this process and the quality of the product. Software engineering metrics are thus a vital component to all software development organizations aspiring to high quality.
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Introduction to Software Process Improvement.

1993
While software now pervades most facets of modern life, its historical problems have not been solved. This report explains why some of these problems have been so difficult for organizations to address and the actions required to address them. It describes the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) software process maturity model, how this model can be
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Software process improvement uncut

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, 2006
Publication in software engineering usually means materials are highly sanitized and readers, whether they be students, educators, or professional engineers, are not exposed often to the full underlying detail. To address this lack of exposure, an interview guide and the interview results on a software process improvement (SPI) project are presented ...
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Commitment in software process improvement - in search of the process

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2003
Studies have shown that nearly two-thirds of all software process improvement (SPI) efforts have failed or at least fell short of expectations. Commitment has been argued to play an important role in determining the outcome of an SPI endeavor. This paper reports preliminary results from a study that attempts to explicate commitment process in SPI. Four
Pekka Abrahamsson, Netta Iivari
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Software Process Improvement Defined.

2002
This paper argues in favor of the development of explanatory theory on software process improvement. The last one or two decades commitment to prescriptive approaches in software process improvement theory may contribute to the emergence of a gulf dividing theorists and practitioners.
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Software process improvement

Software Focus, 2000
Covering a diverse spectrum including reports from Hungary, Germany, Portugal and the USA, Software Process - Improvement and Practice(http:///www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/1077-4866/) highlights successful process improvement studies and projects around the world. WILHELM SCHAFER explains. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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