Software Process Assessment and Improvement (Software Quality Management, Vol 1)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.36 (817 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1562523139 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 545 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Highly valuable to a specific audience" according to Mike Tarrani. This CD ROM contains nine articles that each deal with an aspect of software assessments or process improvements. It's main value is to consultants who specialize in general process assessment and process improvement (i.e., are more interested in best practices than a specific approach such as CMM or SPICE), and organizational SQA groups that are developing an enterprise framework.Articles I liked best are: Chapter Highly valuable to a specific audience This CD ROM contains nine articles that each deal with an aspect of software assessments or process improvements. It's main value is to consultants who specialize in general process assessment and process improvement (i.e., are more interested in best practices than a specific approach such as CMM or SPICE), and organizational SQA groups that are developing an enterprise framework.Articles I liked best are: Chapter 3, which discusses assessment-oriented appr. , which discusses assessment-oriented appr
Chapter 1 presents an historical and organisational perspective, showing how the concepts of Software Process Assessment are linked to the philosophies of TQM. Chapter 3 reports on the application of assessment-oriented approaches to a wide range of problem situations. In Chapter 4 the quantitative validity of the assessment approach is explored while Chapter 5 examines the Capability Maturity Model and the Bootstrap method - two of the principal approaches to process assessment. The international team of contributors p