A Continuous Improvement Model in ImPProS

The goal of this work is analyzing each one of the phases that composes the structure of the IDEAL (Initiating, Diagnosing, Establishing, Acting and Learning) model, as well as its activities and principles, and adapting for the characteristics that the software process implementation environment must have about the continuous software process improvement. This environment helps an organization in the gradual software process implementation, it is useful to supply automated support by means of an environment (ImPProS - gradual software process implementation environment) capable to support the phases that the specialized literature considers as necessary: software process definition, simulation, execution and evaluation (Oliveira et al., 2005). The ImPProS is a project of initiative the Center of Informatic at UFPE - Federal University of Pernambuco with the partnership at UNAMA - University of Amazonia, financed by CNPq - National Advice of Scientific and Technological Development, which aims the creation of an environment of support to the implementation a software process in an organization of gradual way. The "gradual" term denotes the fact that the process implementation is performed with the experiences learned in its previous phases. Thus, it is composed of a cooperative environment, formed for nine main tools: ProDefiner; ProSimulator; ProEnacter; ProEvaluator; ProImprove; ProAnalyser; ProReuse; ProKnowledge; and ProConverter