Software Process Improvement

1. Front Matter

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2. Organizational Issues

   1. Building a Narrative Based Requirements Engineering Mediation Model

      • Nan Ma, Tracy Hall, Trevor Barker

      Pages 1-12

   2. Problems Encountered When Implementing Agile Methods in a Very Small Company

      • Michael J. O’Donnell, Ita Richardson

      Pages 13-24

   3. A Process Asset Library to Support Software Process Improvement in Small Settings

      • Jose A. Calvo-Manzano, Gonzalo Cuevas, Tomás San Feliu, Ariel Serrano

      Pages 25-35

3. Productivity, Effort Estimation and Metrics

   1. Criteria for Estimating Effort for Requirements Changes

      • Bee Bee Chua, Danilo Valeros Bernardo, June Verner

      Pages 36-46

   2. Productivity of Pair Programming in a Distributed Environment – Results from Two Controlled Case Studies

      • Sami Pietinen, Vesa Tenhunen, Markku Tukiainen

      Pages 47-58

   3. Software Functional Size: For Cost Estimation and More

      • Baris Ozkan, Oktay Turetken, Onur Demirors

      Pages 59-69

4. Standards and Reference Models

   1. Process Reference Guides – Support for Improving Software Processes in Alignment with Reference Models and Standards

      • Jean Carlo R. Hauck, Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim, Richard H. de Souza, Marcello Thiry

      Pages 70-81

   2. Practical SPI Planning

      • José Francisco Landaeta, Javier García, Antonio Amescua

      Pages 82-93

   3. Analysis of Dependencies between Specific Practices in CMMI Maturity Level 2

      • Xi Chen, Mark Staples, Paul Bannerman

      Pages 94-105

   4. A Solution for Establishing the Information Technology Service Management Processes Implementation Sequence

      • Magdalena Arcilla, Jose Calvo-Manzano, Gonzalo Cuevas, Gerzon Gómez, Elena Ruiz, Tomás San Feliu

      Pages 106-116

   5. Modeling and Assessment in IT Service Process Improvement

      • Béatrix Barafort, David Jezek, Timo Mäkinen, Svatopluk Stolfa, Timo Varkoi, Ivo Vondrak

      Pages 117-128

   6. A Software Engineering Lifecycle Standard for Very Small Enterprises

      • Claude Y. Laporte, Simon Alexandre, Rory V. O’Connor

      Pages 129-141

5. Documentation and Knowledge Management

   1. Lightweight Process Documentation: Just Enough Structure in Automotive Pre-development

      • Kai Stapel, Eric Knauss, Christian Allmann

      Pages 142-151

   2. Employees’ Motivation for SPI: Case Study in a Small Finnish Software Company

      • Anu Valtanen, Hanna-Miina Sihvonen

      Pages 152-163

   3. A Knowledge Management Approach to Support Software Process Improvement Implementation Initiatives

      • Mariano Angel Montoni, Cristina Cerdeiral, David Zanetti, Ana Regina Cavalcanti da Rocha

      Pages 164-175

6. Project Issues

   1. An Operational Approach for Selecting Open Source Components in a Software Development Project

      • Annick Majchrowski, Jean-Christophe Deprez

      Pages 176-188

   2. A Case Study of Coordination in Distributed Agile Software Development

      • Steinar Hole, Nils Brede Moe

      Pages 189-200

   3. ProPAMet: A Metric for Process and Project Alignment

      • Paula Ventura Martins, Alberto Rodrigues da Silva

      Pages 201-212

7. Back Matter

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This textbook is intended for use by SPI (Software Process Improvement) managers and researchers, quality managers, and experienced project and research managers. The papers constitute the research proceedings of the 15th EuroSPI (European So- ware Process Improvement, www.eurospi.net) conference in Dublin, Ireland, 3–5 September 2008. Since the first conference, held in Dublin in 1994, EuroSPI conferences have been held in 1995 in Vienna (Austria), in 1997 in Budapest (Hungary), in 1998 in Goth- burg (Sweden), in 1999 in Pori (Finland), in 2000 in Copenhagen (Denmark), in 2001 in Limerick (Ireland), in 2002 in Nuremberg (Germany), in 2003 in Graz (Austria), in 2004 in Trondheim (Norway), in 2005 in Budapest (Hungary), in 2006 in Joensuu (Finland), and in 2007 in Potsdam (Germany). EuroSPI has established an experience library (library.eurospi.net), which will be c- tinuously extended over the next few years and was made available to all attendees. EuroSPI has also started an umbrella initiative for establishing a European Quali- cation Network in which different SPINs and national ventures can join mutually beneficial collaborations (EQN - EU Leonardo da Vinci network project). With a general assembly on 15.-16.10.2007 through EuroSPI partners and n- works, in collaboration with the European Union (supported by the EU Leonardo da Vinci Programme), a European certification association has been created (www.- certificates.org) for the IT and services sector to offer SPI knowledge and certificates to industry, establishing close knowledge transfer links between research and industry.

• IT
• Requirements Engineering
• Software Engineering
• agile methods
• documentation
• effort estimation
• modeling
• pair programming
• process documen
• process reference guides
• productivity
• programming
• project management
• quality management
• software process improvement

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