Software Process Improvement: Practical Guidelines for Business Success
- By Sami Zahran
- Published Jan 21, 1998 by Addison-Wesley Professional. Part of the SEI Series in Software Engineering series.
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Description
- Copyright 1998
- Pages: 480
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-201-17782-X
- ISBN-13: 978-0-201-17782-4
This book will help you to manage and control the quality of your organization's software products. Continually dealing with the problems caused by software defects can be both time-consuming and demanding but Sami Zahran's pragmatic approach will take you from reactive fire-fighting to a preventative culture of disciplined and continuous process improvement.
This book will help you:
- establish a process-focused software development organizatio
- design and implement procedures for developing quality software in time and within budge
- benchmark your organization against the industry standards for the software process, including the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), ISO 9001, the new standard ISO/IEC 15504 (originally known as SPICE) and Bootstrap.
Sample Content
Table of Contents
(NOTE: Each chapter concludes with a summary).
I. PROCESS THINKING.
1. Process Thinking.What is process thinking?
What is a process?
Process focus.
Process maturity.
2. Process Discipline.Process discipline.
Benefits of Process discipline.
Process discipline and product quality.
Process-focused organizations.
3. Effective Process Environment.Process myths and realities.
What is an effective process?
Mechanisms for making the process effective.
Process culture.
4. Process Maturity: The Second Wave of the Software Industry.Waves and megatrends of the software industry.
The software process maturity movement.
Levels of software process institutionalization.
Software process maturity standards and initiatives.
I. A FRAMEWORK FOR SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT.
5. A Framework For Software Process Improvement.Software process improvement environment.
Software process infrastructure.
Software process improvement roadmap.
Software process assessment.
Software process improvement plan.
6. Software Process Infrastructure.Justification and definition.
Organizational and management infrastructure.
Process technical infrastructure.
An example of a software process support infrastructure.
Making the infrastructure effective.
7. Process Improvement Roadmaps.Learning from the quality gurus.
Software process improvement models.
Staged versus continuous architecture for SPI models.
Standards and models for SPI.
8. Fundamentals Of Software Process Assessment.Definitions of assessment.
Assessment principles and critical success factors.
Assessment domains.
Assessment generic phases.
Mapping assessment approaches to the generic cycle.
9. Software Process Improvement Act