Improving Software Processes
Managing Risk and Change to Gain High-Level Maturity
Published on 15. July 2016
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-1-4398-6826-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines the many aspects of risk management in software development, explaining how to improve processes and achieve maturity. The first part of the text contains a playbook for risk management software projects, while the second part addresses risk, change management, and process improvement. The book uses capability maturity models of the Software Engineering Institute as the framework and examines risk throughout the software lifecycle. In addition to SEI models, the text looks at best-of-class practices and how they can be adapted during process improvement in an organization.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bosa Roca
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional Practice & Development
Illustrations
25 s/w Abbildungen
25 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4398-6826-3 (9781439868263)
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Persons
Jorge Boria has been a consultant for the last twenty years, using the capability maturity models of the Software Engineering Institute as the framework of reference. He is affiliated with LiveWire in Austin, Texas.
Content
CMMI and Risk. From Lust to Dust, A Product's Life Cycle. CMMI in Organizational Development. Risk is Neither Good Nor Bad, It's Just Risk. Risk Driven Requirements Management. When Good Enough Makes the Project Early Enough. Performance Risk and Critical Computing Resources. Three Quality Assurance Best Practices to Mitigate Bad Projects. Measurements, Measures, Indicators and Information Needs. Using Scrum to Diminish the Risk of Building the Wrong Product for Undecided Customers. Risk Driven Test Management. Mitigating the Risk of Using the Wrong People for the Job. Decision Analysis Done Well. What's Wrong With My Maturity Level4? Lowering the Risk of Getting the Level but not the Benefit. Change. The Dynamic Nature of the Defined Maturity Level of the CMMI (R). Change Does Not Just "Happen". Not All Organizations Are Born Equal, But They are Not So Different After All! Miracles Do Not Happen, They Are Made. Small Organizations, Small Interventions. SCAMPI's As Organizational Development Interventions. What's Coming Down the Line.