Improve software organization—from principles to practice

Author: Cao Ji
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: This book systematically and comprehensively introduces software process improvement, with its content derived from SPI practices of multiple organizations. It describes real-world SPI experiences from the industry, the problems encountered during the implementation of software process improvement, and how these problems were resolved. The book is divided into five parts. Part includes Chapters 1 and 2, introducing the main insights from the authors' three-year collaborative project. In Part, it presents an overview of the theories and models guiding the practice in this project. The second part, divided into four chapters, organizes the lessons learned from this experience. Each chapter describes a characteristic of a company's SPI experience and is named after the corresponding feature it depicts. The third part—Initiating Learning—focuses on how to structure the learning environment and begin initiating learning in the SPI process. The fourth part—Organizational Learning—goes beyond evaluation and adopts a feedback perspective on SPI. The fifth part explores some interesting details in different SPI techniques. This book provides strong reference and guidance for domestic IT enterprises planning, implementing, and managing SPI activities. It is suitable for R&D supervisors, project managers, and software developers in IT enterprises, as well as serving as a teaching reference for computer science and software engineering majors.