Software development organizations are increasingly interested in the possibility of adopting agile development methods. Organizations that have been employing the Capability Maturity Model (CMM/CMMI) for making improvements are now changing their software development processes towards agility. By deploying agile methods, these organizations are making an investment the success of which needs t...

This paper introduces the VPS-Benchmark – a maturity model for performance evaluation and improvement in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with a special focus on virtual engineering. By giving a brief overview on existing approaches for performance evaluation and improvement we point out the demand for a new maturity approach specialized on the requirements of SMEs. The new maturity mo...

Results of the first TMMi benchmark – where are we today? Test Maturity Model integration (TMMi) 1 PAGE Results of the first TMMi benchmark – where are we today? TMMi 1 is a non-commercial, organization-independent test maturity model. With TMMi, organizations can have their test processes objectively evaluated by certified assessors, improve their test processes and even have their test proces...

Software certi cation processes have become so intertwined with development processes that true product certi cation which should demonstrate that the software will behave appro priately is almost never employed This de ciency calls for a new generation of certi cation processes This paper presents a methodology for certifying software systems that will be em ployed in environments with high as...

Generally, an industrial product has more than one quality characteristic. In order to establish performance measures for evaluating the capability of a multivariate manufacturing process, several multivariate process capability indices have been developed based on the assumption of normality. Quality characteristics of many manufacturing processes in the chemical, pharmaceutical and electronic...

The UK Ministry of Defence’s Network Enabled Capability and USA Department of Defence’s Network-Centric Warfare programmes, are aimed at improving military effectiveness through the networking of existing and new military assets. Research is being carried out into architectures needed to support Network Enabled Capability – including emerging software architectures such as Service Oriented Arch...

The current series of international standards for performance evaluation of Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMMs), ISO 10360, outline tests that allow manufacturers (OEMs) to publish specifications in such a way that it is more difficult for the non-expert CMM user to compare different brands of machines. The intent is to improve competitive advantage by having a very attractive, yet many times ...

The paper discusses about the evaluation of the quality of human-centred design processes in product development. It introduces the concept of usability maturity model to be used as an instrument in evaluating human-centred processes, and presents experiences from two assessments, where a novel usability maturity model developed by an EU research project INUSE was used.

Building Information Modelling has experienced rapid development in recent years. Recognized the numerous benefits, various organizations and stakeholders have begun to implement BIM. Contrary to the extensive application, successful implementation requires a thorough understanding of current situation of BIM operations as well as effective, advanced, and high-performing measurements. Despite t...