Successful Software Process Improvement
- Binding: Hardcover
- Edition: 1
- Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
- Publish date: 06/13/1997
-- Shows how to plan and develop a core competency in software development.
-- Presents an investment model for software process improvement.
-- Describes proven methods for sustaining management commitment and creating an environment that breeds success.
Provides common-sense, proven techniques and approaches that software managers and developers can use to deliver significant process improvements.
This book organizes software process improvement into four proven stages: Plan, Do, Check, and Act. It then thoroughly reviews the steps that managers and developers can take in each stage. It shows how to assess current software processes more effectively, and plan and invest to make software development a core competency of your organization. It presents a thoughtful recommendations for making sure that management stays committed to process improvement for the long-haul. Finally, it describes specific techniques organizations can use to track, validate and place a value upon software process improvements.