Software development processes provide means to develop software in a structured and disciplined way. Although these processes provide support for how to develop software, there is still a challenge to successfully apply them in practice. Thus, there is a need to support management of software development processes so that their use generate as good results as possible. The thesis presents supp...

The experience of building a customised process-centered software development environment is described. This environment supports a team-oriented software process and performs automatic collecting of process data such as the number of defects per module and development time per phase per module. The underlying model for collecting the data is the Personal Software Process. The environment has b...

Plan-driven software development processes can be enhanced with techniques taken from the Agile Methods area. This would allow an increase in the range of applications to which those methods can be successfully applied. This paper presents and discusses the addition of TDD-Test Driven Development techniques to the PSP-Personal Software Process, thus generating a hybrid personal process so calle...

Background: One of the necessities of doctor of medicine (M.D.) curriculum is educating seven competencies, including personal development competency, which helps students acquire and use effective abilities in their personal and professional life, including self-knowledge, psychology of change, strategic and management principles, and informatics. Given the importance of this ...

This paper presents standardized norms of child development in Shiraz (Iran). A birth cohort of317 randomly selected neonates born at the 14 maternity clinics of Shiraz during 2 random consecutive weeks in 1996 were followed at homes for 2 years at 12 designed occasions and their development examined by 2 trained public health officers and a community medicine expert. In gross-motor and per...