Is software process re-engineering and improvement the “Sliver Bullet” of the 1990´s or a constructive approach to meet pre-defined business targets?

Author

Kuntzmann-Combelles, Annie

Author_Institution

OBJECTIF Technol., Arcueil, France

fYear

1996

fDate

21-23 Aug 1996

Firstpage

435

Abstract

Our experience in the process control business started consciously in 1990 and probably unconsciously before. When we started, the CMM model from the Software Engineering Institute was available to the public and we used it as the basis for development of a methodology for software measurement. In late 1993, we noticed some interest among our customers in Europe for process improvement; analysing the reasons for the customers´ enthusiasm, we observed that there were two main justifications: competitors in the market place were involved in process improvement; and senior management had understood the role of software performance for the future of the company

Keywords

business data processing; software development management; software metrics; systems re-engineering; CMM model; Software Engineering Institute; business targets; constructive approach; process control business; senior management; software measurement; software performance; software process improvement; software process re-engineering; Business process re-engineering; Coordinate measuring machines; Costs; Europe; Performance analysis; Process control; Project management; Silver; Software engineering; Software measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1996. COMPSAC '96., Proceedings of 20th International

Conference_Location

Seoul

ISSN

0730-3157

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7579-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPSAC.1996.544608

Filename

544608