Product focused software process improvement (P-SPI) : concepts and their application

D.M. Solingen, van; R.J. Kusters; J.J.M. Trienekens; A. Uijtrecht, van

doi:10.1002/(SICI)1099-1638(199911/12)15:6<475::AID-QRE296>3.0.CO;2-1

Product focused software process improvement (P-SPI) : concepts and their application

D.M. Solingen, van, R.J. Kusters, J.J.M. Trienekens, A. Uijtrecht, van

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Management problems in the development of software have been addressed over recent years by a focus on improvement of the development process. This paper states that software process improvement (SPI) should have an explicit product focus. The practical implementation of a method for product-focused software process improvement is presented and discussed and experiences from a particular development project are described. The main conclusions are that a product focus addresses the specific needs of a company very well and results in early availability and visibility of benefits. As a result, commitment of a product development team to an improvement programme is established. Furthermore, it appears that the benefits of the application of the P-SPI method outweigh the (relatively low) cost already in an early phase of the project.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	475-483
Number of pages	9
Journal	Quality and Reliability Engineering International
Volume	15
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-1638(199911/12)15:6<475::AID-QRE296>3.0.CO;2-1
Publication status	Published - 1999

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