Software Process Improvement: 15th European Conference, EuroSPI 2008, Dublin, Ireland, September 3-5, 2008, Proceedings

ISBN-13: 9783540859345 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 213 str.

Rory O'Connor;Nathan Baddoo;Kari Smolander

Opis

This textbook is intended for use by SPI (Software Process Improvement) managers and researchers, quality managers, and experienced project and research managers. The papers constitute the research proceedings of the 15th EuroSPI (European So- ware Process Improvement, www.eurospi.net) conference in Dublin, Ireland, 3-5 September 2008. Since the first conference, held in Dublin in 1994, EuroSPI conferences have been held in 1995 in Vienna (Austria), in 1997 in Budapest (Hungary), in 1998 in Goth- burg (Sweden), in 1999 in Pori (Finland), in 2000 in Copenhagen (Denmark), in 2001 in Limerick (Ireland), in 2002 in Nuremberg (Germany), in 2003 in Graz (Austria), in 2004 in Trondheim (Norway), in 2005 in Budapest (Hungary), in 2006 in Joensuu (Finland), and in 2007 in Potsdam (Germany). EuroSPI has established an experience library (library.eurospi.net), which will be c- tinuously extended over the next few years and was made available to all attendees. EuroSPI has also started an umbrella initiative for establishing a European Quali- cation Network in which different SPINs and national ventures can join mutually beneficial collaborations (EQN - EU Leonardo da Vinci network project). With a general assembly on 15.-16.10.2007 through EuroSPI partners and n- works, in collaboration with the European Union (supported by the EU Leonardo da Vinci Programme), a European certification association has been created (www.- certificates.org) for the IT and services sector to offer SPI knowledge and certificates to industry, establishing close knowledge transfer links between research and industry.

Spis treści

Organizational Issues.- Building a Narrative Based Requirements Engineering Mediation Model.- Problems Encountered When Implementing Agile Methods in a Very Small Company.- A Process Asset Library to Support Software Process Improvement in Small Settings.- Productivity, Effort Estimation and Metrics.- Criteria for Estimating Effort for Requirements Changes.- Productivity of Pair Programming in a Distributed Environment – Results from Two Controlled Case Studies.- Software Functional Size: For Cost Estimation and More.- Standards and Reference Models.- Process Reference Guides – Support for Improving Software Processes in Alignment with Reference Models and Standards.- Practical SPI Planning.- Analysis of Dependencies between Specific Practices in CMMI Maturity Level 2.- A Solution for Establishing the Information Technology Service Management Processes Implementation Sequence.- Modeling and Assessment in IT Service Process Improvement.- A Software Engineering Lifecycle Standard for Very Small Enterprises.- Documentation and Knowledge Management.- Lightweight Process Documentation: Just Enough Structure in Automotive Pre-development.- Employees’ Motivation for SPI: Case Study in a Small Finnish Software Company.- A Knowledge Management Approach to Support Software Process Improvement Implementation Initiatives.- Project Issues.- An Operational Approach for Selecting Open Source Components in a Software Development Project.- A Case Study of Coordination in Distributed Agile Software Development.- ProPAMet: A Metric for Process and Project Alignment.

O autorze

Dr. Richard Messnarz studierte an der TU in Graz und sponsionierte zum Diplom-Ingenieur im Jahr 1990. Von 1990-96 arbeitete er an der TU Graz als Forschungsassistent und Vortragender zu Programmiertechnik und Systemarchitekturen und arbeitete parallel an seiner Dissertation zum BOOTSTRAP-Projekt. 1995 promovierte er zum Doktor der Technischen Wissenschaften. 1997 übernahm er die Leitung von ISCN. Er ist Vorsitzender der European-Software-Process-Improvement-Initiative und Conference Chair des Programmkomitees der EuroSPI-Konferenzreihe. 2003 war er Coach für Prozessverbesserungen in der deutschen SOQRATES-Initiative und ab 2004 Moderator von firmenübergreifenden Task Forces, die gemeinsam an Prozessverbesserungsthemen arbeiten. Derzeit ist er als Automotive SPICE ® und ISO 15504 Principal Assessor für führende österreichische und deutsche Unternehmen tätig und leitet einige EU-Initiativen zum Thema Innovation, Prozessverbesserung und europaweite Zertifizierung.

Blurb

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th European Conference, EuroSPI 2008, Dublin, Irland, September 2008.

The 18 revised full papers presented together with one introductory paper were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on organisational issues; productivity, effort estimation metrics; standards reference models; documentation knowledge management as well as project issues.