Early Phase Process Evaluation: Industrial Practices

Industrial best practices of conceptual process design

The chemical process industry aims particularly at energy, capital expenditure and variable feedstock cost savings due to fierce global competition, the Kyoto Protocol and requirements for sustainable development. Increasingly conceptual process design methods are used in the industry to achieve these aims. They are used in: • existing processes to renew parts; • process re-designs based on exi...

Early Evaluation of Software Process

Software process improvement involves evaluation of process change proposals, and it is important to evaluate changes as early as possible. A process impact analysis method for interview based evaluation of change proposals is presented. It is based on the subjective opinions of people in the organisation, and it is carried out in three steps. In the first step, the impact on sub-processes is e...

Industrial Process

Software Evolution Management: Industrial Practices

The complexity of modern software systems and the global competition make the adoption of model-based techniques unavoidable. A higher level of abstraction not only allows to mitigate the intricacy of the development, e.g., through separation of concerns, but it is also expected to permit shorter round-trip cycles to add new system functionalities, fix bugs, and refine existing features. This p...

An Overview of Industrial Software Documentation Practices

A system documentation process maturity model and assessment procedure were developed and used to assess 91 projects at 41 different companies over a seven year period. During this time the original version evolved into a total of four versions based on feedback from industry and the experience gained from the assessments. This paper reports the overall results obtained from the assessments whi...