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An indispensable addition to your project management, software engineering or computer science bookshelf, this book illuminates and simplifies otherwise complex topics in ROI. It presents extremely simple, but powerful metrics, models, and methods for designing professional business cases and providing hard-hitting economic justification. It explores the most popular international methods, models, and standards for software process improvement. The author's practical tutorial on the costs,...

Many different quality approaches are available in the software industry. Some of the approaches, such as ISO 9001 are not software specific, i.e. they define general requirements for an organization and they can be used at any company. Others, such as Automotive SPICE have been derived from a software-specific approach and can be used for improving particular (in this case automotive) processes. Some are created to improve development processes (e.g. CMMI for Development), others focus on...

C. Amting Directorate General Information Society, European Commission, Brussels Under the 4th Framework of European Research, the European Systems and Soft ware Initiative (ESSI) was part of the ESPRIT Programme. This initiative funded more than 470 projects in the area' of software and system process improvements. The majority of these projects were process improvement experiments carrying out and taking up new development processes, methods and technology within the software development...

An indispensable addition to your project management, software engineering or computer science bookshelf, this book illuminates and simplifies otherwise complex topics in ROI. It presents extremely simple, but powerful metrics, models, and methods for designing professional business cases and providing hard-hitting economic justification. It explores the most popular international methods, models, and standards for software process improvement. The authors practical tutorial on the costs, ...

This textbook is a systematic guide to the steps in setting up a Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) improvement initiative. Readers will learn the project management practices necessary to deliver high-quality software solutions to the customer on time and on budget. The text also highlights how software process improvement can achieve specific business goals to provide a tangible return on investment. Topics and features: supplies review questions, summaries and key topics for e...

Reducing Risk with Software Process Improvement recommends the critical practices that aid in the successful delivery of software products and services. The author describes the observations that he made over a period of ten years in IT projects and organizations. He focuses on the areas of software development and maintenance, highlighting the most frequently encountered problems that occur due to poor processes. The author derives recommendations from 40 comprehensive assessments of IT o...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination, SPICE 2017, held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, in October 2017.The 34 full papers presented together with 4 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: SPI in agile approaches; SPI in small settings; SPI and assessment; SPI and models; SPI and functional...

Process Improvement Simplified is written for leaders and managers of organizations or enterprises who: Are struggling with their organization’s success Are not satisfied with the current state Are striving to be number one Have heard about the negatives or positives of process improvement (PI) but have never implemented it But PI is not a panacea; it takes leadership commitment and involvement, plus organizational behavior modification so that PI becomes a disciplined way of life. It enta...

Did the team have access to expertise to explore information technology opportunities? Is the New Process Achieving Its Planned Performance Goals? Are executives realigning organization values, incentives, and reward systems to focus sharply on achieving outcomes important to customers? Do the goals drive improvements that are valued by customers and stakeholders? How well is your organization performing in relation to customer expectations?This exclusive Business Process Improveme...

Has your organization Established a Transition Team and Developed a Comprehensive Implementation Plan? Did benchmarking show that other organizations can do the same (or analogous) process much better? What, if any, performance information does your organization have for the past several years to show performance trends for each core process? How can a business process management tool help your organization remain at the top of its game? Do the goals challenge your organization to achieve ...

Do the management invite to dialogue and participation from the rest of your organization?Does the team have a leader who is well versed in Six Sigma tools and project management?Does your organization use service contract or service level agreement for cloud services?How can cloud computing service consumers implement cloud governance within organizations?How critical is the programs mission or purpose to your organizations mission as a whole?What a...

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