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Artifact-based software process improvement and management: a method proposal

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Marco Kuhrmann,

Sarah BeechamAuthors Info & Claims

ICSSP '14: Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Software and System Process

Pages 119 - 123

https://doi.org/10.1145/2600821.2600839

Published: 26 May 2014 Publication History

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When it comes to software process improvement (SPI), process engineers look for SPI methods to support process analysis, design, realization, deployment, and management. Although a number of different SPI methods and models exist, process engineers tend to view these as too generic, too large, or a poor fit for the organization in which SPI is conducted. A strategy to overcome these shortcomings is to concentrate on the artifacts, which precisely define the desired outcomes, rather than on specific methods. In this paper, we present the Artifact-based Software Process Improvement & Management (ArSPI) model that provides a unified perspective on SPI and company-wide software process management (SPM), the required key artifacts, and the life cycle models. ArSPI is shown to be of practical support to industry who called for a practical way to define the interfaces between SPI projects. This paper concludes with an example of how ArSPI paved the way for several organizations through applying the model in real-world SPI-projects.

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Artifact-based software process improvement and management: a method proposal
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems

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ICSSP '14: Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Software and System Process

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DOI:10.1145/2600821

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