Product Focused Software Process Improvement

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. Keynote Address

   1. Guaranteed Software Quality

      • Dieter Rombach

      Pages 1-2

   2. Building an Experience Base for Software Engineering: A Report on the First CeBASE eWorkshop

      • Victor Basili

      Pages 3-3

   3. A Contingency Approach to Software Development

      • Werner Mellis

      Pages 4-4

   4. Career-Long Education for Software Professionals: A US View of the Educational Challenges in a Rapidly-Changing Technology

      • Mary Shaw

      Pages 5-5

3. Quality of Software

   1. Cognitive Structures of Software Evaluation: A Means-End Chain Analysis of Quality

      • Bernard Wong, Ross Jeffery

      Pages 6-26

   2. Requirements Evolution From Process to Product Oriented Management

      • Stuart Anderson, Massimo Felici

      Pages 27-41

4. Software Process Assessment and Improvement

   1. A Case Study on Scenario-based Process Flexibility Assessment for Risk Reduction

      • Josef Nedstam, Martin Höst, Björn Regnell, Jennie Nilsson

      Pages 42-56

   2. Contexts of KM Based SPI: The Case of Software Design Experience Reuse

      • V. Seppänen, S. Komi-Sirviö, A. Mäntyniemi, T. Rahikkala, M. Pikkarainen

      Pages 57-67

   3. Models and Success Factors of Process Change

      • Marion Lepasaar, Timo Varkoi, Hannu Jaakkola

      Pages 68-77

   4. Process Improvement in Turbulent Times — Is CMM Still an Answer?

      • Karl Lebsanft

      Pages 78-85

   5. Assessment of Maintenance Maturity in IT Departments of Public Entities: Two Case Studies

      • Macario Polo, Mario Piattini, Francisco Ruiz, Mar Jiménez

      Pages 86-97

   6. Evaluating a Usability Capability Assessment

      • Netta Iivari, Timo Jokela

      Pages 98-109

5. Organizational Learning and Experience Factory

   1. Building an Experience Base for Software Engineering: A Report on the First CeBASE eWorkshop

      • Victor Basili, Roseanne Tesoriero, Patricia Costa, Mikael Lindvall, Ioana Rus, Forrest Shull et al.

      Pages 110-125

   2. Experience Magnets Attracting Experiences, Not Just Storing Them

      • Kurt Schneider

      Pages 126-140

   3. Improving Knowledge Management in Software Reuse Process

      • Timo Kucza, Minna Nättinen, Päivi Parviainen

      Pages 141-152

   4. Processes and Knowledge Management: A Symbiosis

      • Christof Nagel

      Pages 153-166

   5. Augmenting Experience Reports with Lightweight Postmortem Reviews

      • Torgeir Dingsøyr, Nils Brede Moe, Ø;ystein Nytrø

      Pages 167-181

   6. A Tool for Managing Software Development Knowledge

      • Scott Henninger, Jason Schlabach

      Pages 182-195

6. Industrial Experiences and Case Studies

   1. Starting Improvement of Requirements Engineering Processes: An Experience Report

      • Marjo Kauppinen, Sari Kujala

      Pages 196-209

The Third International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2001) continued the success of the PROFES’99 and PROFES 2000 conferences. PROFES 2001 was organized in Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 10 13, 2001. The PROFES conference has its roots in the PROFES Esprit project (http://www.ele.vtt.fi/profes/), but it quickly evolved into a full fledged general purpose conference in 1999 and since then it has gained wide spread international popularity. As in previous years, the main theme of PROFES 2001 was professional software process improvement (SPI) motivated by product and service quality needs. SPI is facilitated by software process assessment, software measurement, process modeling, and technology transfer and has become a practical tool for quality software engineering and management. The conference addresses both the solutions found in practice as well as relevant research results from academia. The purpose of the conference is to bring to light the most recent findings and results in the area and to stimulate discussion between the researchers, experienced professionals, and technology providers for SPI.

• Distributed Software Development
• Software Installation Management
• Software Lifecycle
• Software Management
• Software Measurement
• Software Process
• Software Process Improvement
• Software Products
• Software Quality
• modeling
• organization
• software engineering

• Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern, Germany

  Frank Bomarius

• VTT Electronics, Oulu, Finland

  Seija Komi-Sirviö

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