Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement

1. Front Matter

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2. SPI and Assessment

   1. A Multi-model Workflow before Establishing an Acquisition Contract Based on CMMI-ACQ Model

      • Jezreel Mejia, Mirna Muñoz, Jose A. Calvo-Manzano, Gonzalo Cuevas, Tomás San Feliu

      Pages 1-13

   2. ISO/IEC 15504-5 Best Practices for IT Service Management

      • Antoni Lluís Mesquida, Antonia Mas

      Pages 14-24

   3. A Self-assessment Framework for Finding Improvement Objectives with ISO/IEC 29119 Test Standard

      • Jussi Kasurinen, Per Runeson, Leah Riungu, Kari Smolander

      Pages 25-36

3. SPI and Implementation

   1. Improving the Deployment of IT Service Management Processes: A Case Study

      • Marko Jäntti, Julia Järvinen

      Pages 37-48

   2. A Survey on the Application of the V-Modell XT in German Government Agencies

      • Marco Kuhrmann, Christian Lange, André Schnackenburg

      Pages 49-60

   3. Improving Verification & Validation in the Medical Device Domain

      • M. S. Sivakumar, Valentine Casey, Fergal McCaffery, Gerry Coleman

      Pages 61-71

4. SPI and Improvement Methods

   1. The Meaning of Success for Software SMEs: An Holistic Scorecard Based Approach

      • Paul Clarke, Rory V. O’Connor

      Pages 72-83

   2. Five Agile Factors: Helping Self-management to Self-reflect

      • Christoph J. Stettina, Werner Heijstek

      Pages 84-96

   3. A Detailed Software Process Improvement Methodology: BG-SPI

      • Banu Aysolmaz, Onur Demirörs

      Pages 97-108

5. SPI and Organization

   1. Motivation and Empowerment in Process Improvement

      • Marion Lepmets, Eric Ras

      Pages 109-120

   2. Improvement of Innovation Management through the Enlargement of Idea Sources

      • Martin Neumann, Andreas Riel, Daniel Brissaud

      Pages 121-132

   3. The Usability Approach in Software Process Improvement

      • Péter Balázs Polgár, Miklós Biró

      Pages 133-142

6. SPI and People/Teams

   1. A Study of Software Development Team Dynamics in SPI

      • Shuib Basri, Rory V. O’Connor

      Pages 143-154

   2. An Empirical Investigation into Social Productivity of a Software Process: An Approach by Using the Structural Equation Modeling

      • Murat Yilmaz, Rory V. O’Connor

      Pages 155-166

   3. Agile Process Improvement: Diagnosis and Planning to Improve Teamwork

      • Mats Angermo Ringstad, Torgeir Dingsøyr, Nils Brede Moe

      Pages 167-178

7. SPI and Reuse

   1. The Tutelkan Reference Process: A Reusable Process Model for Enabling SPI in Small Settings

      • Gonzalo Valdés, Marcello Visconti, Hernán Astudillo

      Pages 179-190

   2. Process Support for Product Line Application Engineering

      • Padraig O’Leary, Ita Richardson

      Pages 191-202

   3. Software Product Lines – An Agile Success Factor?

      • Andrea Leitner, Christian Kreiner

      Pages 203-214

8. Selected Key Notes for SPI Implementation

   1. SPI in SMEs

      1. Introducing Scrum in a Very Small Enterprise: A Productivity and Quality Analysis

         • Edgar Caballero, Jose A. Calvo-Manzano, Tomás San Feliu

         Pages 215-224

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th EuroSPI conference, held in Roskilde, Denmark, in June 2011. The 18 revised full papers presented together with 9 key notes were carefully reviewed and selected. They are organized in topical sections on SPI and assessments; SPI and implementation; SPI and improvement methods; SPI organization; SPI people/ teams; SPI and reuse; selected key notes for SPI implementation.

• business success
• functional safety requirements
• integrated project managment
• medical device standards
• process quality models

• Lero, The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

  Rory V. O‘Connor

• Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark

  Jan Pries-Heje

• ISCN Ltd., Graz, Austria

  Richard Messnarz

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