This work has the purpose of describing a software development process with the following characteristics: its scope lies within the requirements engineering activities; it fulfills CMMI requisites for Requirements Management and Requirements Development process areas (maturity level 2 and 3, respectively); it is based on RUP practices and activities where possible practices of agile methods ar...

Process and product quality assurance are very important aspects in development of software. Process and product quality assurance monitor the software engineering processes and methods to ensure quality. It is the process of confirming and verifying that whether services and products meet the customer expectation or not. This research will identify general measures for the specific goals and i...

Most industrial software-intensive systems have a very long life span, and undergo many changes after their initial conception. To ensure that they maintain the desired system-level properties, it is essential that their architecture is also updated to reflect the added functionality. To this end, we have investigated how Evolutionary Architecting should be carried out in order to provide a str...

Software process improvement can follow a capability maturity model such as SPICE or CMMi. Or it can focus on improving selected software processes in detail. The latter can either be a stand-alone improvement activity, or it can tune processes that were established or modified due to a large-scale assessment. Some software processes need to be adjusted qualitatively: process steps or deliverab...

Tradeoff studies are broadly recognized and mandated as the method for simultaneously considering multiple alternatives with many criteria, and as such are recommended in the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Decision Analysis and Resolution (DAR) process. Tradeoff studies, which involve human numerical judgment, calibration, and data updating, are often approached with under confide...

The objective of this research was to examine the development of safety management in case company Production division. The emphasis is on the present situation and the purpose was to give a general view of safety management. The idea was also to create practical implications as development focuses for the future. The theoretical background of this research is based on organizations, management...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) developed an integrated Capability Maturity Model (CMM), known as the FAA-iCMM, that integrates the Systems Engineering CMM, the Software Acquisition CMM and the CMM for Software. The FAA-iCMM was released in 1997 and is the first major integrated CMM in existence. Since 1997, it has been successfully guiding the systematic improvement of FAA-wide proce...

This paper includes a causal-based modelling of software process models in order to analyse the correct relationships between the different (key) process areas of these models. A first short description of causal network approaches shows the identified problems and possible benefits using these formal techniques in the software engineering area. The definition and extension of the causal modell...

It is the position of this author that attention to both process and people is a key to rapidly adopting new technology essential to improving software quality, reducing costs, and shortening cycle time. In order to succeed, corporations are realizing the importance of meeting these challenges: . the tension between discipline/bureaucracy and creativity/chaos must be creatively managed . “agili...