Software Process Improvement: Practical Guidelines for Business Success
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Author Description
This book will help you to manage and control the quality of your organization's software products. Continually dealing with the problems caused by software defects can be both time-consuming and demanding but Sami Zahran's pragmatic approach will take you from reactive fire-fighting to a preventative culture of disciplined and continuous process improvement.This book will help you:establish a process-focused software development organizatio design and implement procedures for developing quality software in time and within budge benchmark your organization against the industry standards for the software process, including the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), ISO 9001, the new standard ISO/IEC 15504 (originally known as SPICE) and Bootstrap.
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THE THESIS
How can organizations transition from reactive software development to a disciplined, preventative culture of continuous process improvement? Sami Zahran provides a pragmatic framework for managers and engineers to control software quality while maintaining project timelines and budgets. By integrating industry-standard models, the author outlines a systematic approach to organizational maturity that minimizes defects and optimizes development lifecycles.
THE SCOPE MAP
What You Will Find
- Implementation strategies for establishing a process-focused development environment.
- Comparative analysis of industry standards including CMM, ISO 9001, and ISO/IEC 15504.
- Methodologies for benchmarking organizational performance against global software quality metrics.
- Practical techniques for managing project budgets and delivery schedules through process discipline.
THE AUTHORITY PERSPECTIVE
Experts recognize this work as a structured guide for professionals navigating the complexities of software quality management. Readers frequently note the practical utility of the book's alignment with established international standards for process assessment.
Page Count:
447
Publication Date:
1998-01-01
Publisher:
Addison-Wesley
ISBN-10:
020117782X
ISBN-13:
9780201177824
Business
Technology
Quality Control
Management
Software Engineering
Computer software
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