
Improving Software Practice
Case Experiences
Colin Tully(Editor)
Wiley (Publisher)
Published on 26. August 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
XII, 164 pages
978-0-471-98254-8 (ISBN)
Description
Improving Software Practice Case Experiences Edited by Colin Tully Colin Tully Associates, UK The software process is a business-critical process for many organizations. For them, improving software practice is both an imperative and a continuing challenge, to achieve success and even survival. This applies whether the organization develops software as its main business, embeds software in its products, or depends on software to underpin its business operations. This book presents case histories of eight very different organizations, each engaged in improving its software practice. Each organization has made its own individual evaluation of where its improvement priority lies, but they all share common experiences of what must be done in order to succeed in improving practice. Any software manager or practitioner facing the need for improvement will learn from these real-life stories, recounted by those who have been there already, seen the opportunities, and struggled with the problems.
No two companies are the same, or should adopt a standard approach; but there are common lessons to be shared, and this book exposes many of those common lessons in a way that is both readable and convincing. This book documents the following: Eight case studies that give an insight into software process improvement in the business environment Experience from various aspects of software process improvement Coverage of all parts of the complete software lifecycle. Produced and funded within the framework of the ESSI initiative of the European Commission is Programme.
No two companies are the same, or should adopt a standard approach; but there are common lessons to be shared, and this book exposes many of those common lessons in a way that is both readable and convincing. This book documents the following: Eight case studies that give an insight into software process improvement in the business environment Experience from various aspects of software process improvement Coverage of all parts of the complete software lifecycle. Produced and funded within the framework of the ESSI initiative of the European Commission is Programme.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Chichester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 27.5 cm
Width: 22 cm
Weight
462 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-98254-8 (9780471982548)
Schweitzer Classification
Content
Application Enabler Technology for Factory Automation. ALCAST - Irish Company Experiences with ESSI. Addressing the Missing Element in Software Process Improvement: User Interface Design. A Logic-Based Approach to the Specification and Design of the Control System of a Pondage Power Plant. A Structured Approach to Software Quality Management. FAME: Framework for Management and Design of Multimedia Applications in Education and Training. System and Software Project Management and Management Accounting Methodology. Introducing Systematic Reuse in an SME. Some Final Reflections. Index.