Not so! This article relates the five-month process improvement experience of a team of about 25 people doing Web development at a major corporation. We tackled areas including project management, change control, requirements engineering, and quality practices. The tangible and cultural benefits we achieved have the potential to help this group meet its commitments to deliver Web applications (...

This article describes in overview the key activities involved in implementing a software engineering process. Since this is such a broad topic, the article will focus primarily on describing the “meta-process” that allows an organization to create, use, and improve a set of documented processes that guide software development and maintenance activities. Since this metaprocess represents a set ...

Even if the application developers produce software in accordance with the customer requirements, they cannot guarantee that the software will behave in a safe way during the lifetime of the software. We define a system as safe if the risks related to its use are judged to be acceptable [1]. Safety must not be confused with security which broadly is defined as keeping the system unavailable for...

Many software organizations have engaged in Software Process Improvement (SPI) and experienced the challenges related to managing such complex organizational change efforts. As a result, there is an increasing body of research investigating change management in SPI. To provide an overview of what we know and don’t know about SPI as organizational change, this paper addresses the following quest...

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This. aport describes the case studies approach applied at a number of Siemens software development organizations to observe the impact of software process improvement methods. In addition, the report provides guidance to software development organizations that want to improve their processes. A set of organization performance measures are defined to help an organization observe its software pr...

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Software organisations have for many years struggled to mature engineering practices using a variety of approaches. Over the last decade a new approach, known as software process improvement (SPI), has emerged and become widely used in the software industry. In this paper we position SPI in the landscape of initiatives that can be used in software organisations to mature their operations. A map...

Welcome to the track on “Software Process and Product Improvement” at this year’s Euromicro conference! In today's competitive world the quality of software systems is a key to economic success and stability. The goal of the SPPI track at the conference is to establish a forum for exchanging advances and experiences in improving software quality, with a special focus on development processes. T...

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