Product Focused Software Process Improvement

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XV

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2. Keynote Address

   1. Keynote Address: CMMI: Improving Processes for Better Products

      • Mike Phillips

      Pages 1-1

3. Keynote Address

   1. Keynote Address: SW Engineering under Tight Economic Constrains

      • Timo-Pekka Leinonen

      Pages 2-2

4. Panel

   1. Panel Agile Methods in a Mature Process Environment

      • Richard Turner

      Pages 3-3

5. Improvement Management

   1. A Systems Perspective on Software Process Improvement

      • Andreas Birk, Dietmar Pfahl

      Pages 4-18

   2. Transition Management of Software Process Improvement

      • Seon-ah Lee, Byoungju Choi

      Pages 19-34

   3. Managing the Improvement of SCM Process

      • Marcello Visconti, Rodolfo Villarroel

      Pages 35-48

6. Process Modeling

   1. Exploiting a Virtual Environment in a Visual PML

      • Kamal Zuhairi Zamli, Peter Lee

      Pages 49-62

   2. Integrating Dynamic Models for CMM-Based Software Process Improvement

      • Mercedes Ruiz, Isabel Ramos, Miguel Toro

      Pages 63-77

   3. Simulation-Based Risk Reduction for Planning Inspections

      • Holger Neu, Thomas Hanne, Jürgen Münch, Stefan Nickel, Andreas Wirsen

      Pages 78-93

7. Software Quality

   1. Introducing Object Validation and Navigation in Software Process to Improve Software Quality

      • Gopalakrishna Raghavan

      Pages 94-102

   2. A Framework for Software Quality Evaluation

      • Bernard Wong, Ross Jeffery

      Pages 103-118

   3. Component Certification - What is the Value?

      • Lars Bratthall, Johan Hasselberg, Brad Hoffman, Zbigniew Korendo, Bruno Schilli, Lars Gundersen

      Pages 119-133

8. Agile Software Development

   1. Agile Development: Good Process or Bad Attitude?

      • Richard Turner

      Pages 134-144

   2. Organisational Culture in Agile Software Development

      • Peter Wendorff

      Pages 145-157

   3. Making a Method Work for a Project Situation in the Context of CMM

      • Mehmet N. Aydin, Frank Harmsen

      Pages 158-171

9. Process Improvement Approaches

   1. A Practical Application of the IDEAL Model

      • Valentine Casey, Ita Richardson

      Pages 172-184

   2. On Software Maintenance Process Improvement Based on Code Clone Analysis

      • Yoshiki Higo, Yasushi Ueda, Toshihro Kamiya, Shinji Kusumoto, Katsuro Inoue

      Pages 185-197

   3. Is Your Project Ready for Time-to-Market Focus?

      • Janne Järvinen, Jouni Jartti

      Pages 198-206

10. Methods and Techniques

    1. Daibutsu-den: A Component-Based Framework for Organizational Process Asset Utilization

       • Hajimu Iida, Yasushi Tanaka, Ken'ichi Matsumoto

       Pages 207-219

On behalf of the PROFES organizing committee we would like to welcome you to the 4th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Impro- ment (PROFES 2002) in Rovaniemi, Finland. The conference was held on the Arctic Circle in exotic Lapland under the Northern Lights just before Christmas time, when Kaamos (the polar night is known in Finnish as ”Kaamos”) shows its best characteristics. PROFES has established itself as one of the recognized international process improvement conferences. Despite the current economic downturn, PROFES has attracted a record number of submissions. A total of 70 full papers were subm- ted and the program committee had a di?cult task in selecting the best papers to be presented at the conference. The main theme of PROFES is professional software process improvement (SPI) motivated by product and service quality needs. SPI is facilitated by so- ware process assessment, software measurement, process modeling, and techn- ogy transfer. It has become a practical tool for quality software engineering and management. The conference addresses both the solutions found in practice and the relevant research results from academia.

• Distributed Software Development
• Embedded Software
• Planning
• Software Installation Management
• Software Lifecycle
• Software Process
• Software Process Management
• Software Products
• Software Quality
• embedded systems
• knowledge management
• modeling
• object oriented design
• organization
• software architecture

• Department of Information Processing Science, University of Oulu, Oulun yliopisto, Finland

  Markku Oivo

• VTT Electronics, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Oulu, Finland

  Seija Komi-Sirviö

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