Software Process Improvement: Practical Guidelines for Business Success (SEI Series in Software Engineering) - Hardcover

Zahran, Sami

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 020117782X ISBN 13: 9780201177824

Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 1998

Synopsis

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.

 

About this title

Review

` In addition to talking about process improvement, Sami Zahran provides useful guidance from a practitioner's perspective....Most importantly he discusses the issues which you, the user, will face as you pursue process improvement on your own'
Watts Humphrey, Software Engineering Institute

` Regardless of the approach selected, building competitive advantage should be focused on improvement, not on achieving a score... Dr Zahran's book should help the reader understand the trade-offs and issues associated with effective software process improvement.'
Mark C. Paulk, Software Engineering Institute

`This is exactly the kind of book that is needed to spread awareness of the potential of Software Process Improvement and how to succeed in it.....It is to be warmly welcomed and recommended.'
Colin Tully, Independent Consulting Software Engineer

" Software Process Improvement-Practical Guidelines for Business Success provides comprehensive guidance on implementing software process improvement and more..... The concluding sections of the book provide excellent summaries of the various Software Process standards/guidelines covering the SEI/CMM, ISO/IEC 15504 (SPICE), Bootstrap, ISO 9000, Trillium and others..... With a forward from Watts Humphrey, a preface by the SEI's Mark Paulk, well ordered layout and copious use of diagrams, charts and tables, Dr Zahran's book will provide rewarding reading and an excellent reference work for anyone who is intent on bringing about software process improvement."
The Software Manager

From the Back Cover

((Shelving Category)) Software EngineeringSOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENTPractical Guidelines for Business SuccessSami Zahran‘This is exactly the kind of book that is needed to spread awareness of the potential of Software Process Improvement and how to succeed in it. As well as presenting current models and methods it contains new ideas and approaches. It will interest and inform not only those who have prior knowledge of this critically important field, but also those who come new to it. It is to be warmly welcomed and recommended.’Colin TullyIndependent Consulting Software EngineerEvery year, software failure is responsible for huge losses both in financial and human terms. While businesses and individuals depend increasingly on their information systems, it is imperative that software is developed to be all the more reliable and robust.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 organization· design and implement procedures for developing quality software in time and within budget· 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.‘In addition to talking about process improvement, Sami Zahran provides useful guidance from a practitioner’s perspective. He clearly explains the purposes and methods of process improvement, and compares the leading methods, their principal features and characteristics. Most importantly, he discusses the issues which you, the user, will face as you pursue process improvement on your own.’Watts HumphreySoftware Engineering InstituteAbout the author:Dr. Sami Zahran is one of the chief advocates of software process improvement and its impact on organizations. He has over three decades of experience in the software industry assuming senior positions with large organizations including ICL (International Computers Limited), the United Nations, Digital Equipement Corporation, and currently with IBM. He was trained in Software Process Improvement at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr Zahran regularly teaches courses on the subject and is an invited speaker at numerous international conferences and workshops.Visit Addison Wesley Longman on the World Wide Web at:http://www.awl-he.com/computinghttp://www.awl.com/csengVisit ACM Press on the World Wide Web at:http://www.info.acm.org((Addison Wesley Longman logoSEI logo))

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 020117782X
• ISBN 13: 9780201177824
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 480