How things should not be done: a real-world horror story of software engineering process improvement

  • Authors:
  • Jarmo J. Ahonen;Hanna-Miina Sihvonen

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland;Department of Computer Science, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland

  • Venue:
  • EuroSPI'05 Proceedings of the 12th European conference on Software Process Improvement
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this article a real-world story of a 2.5 year period is told. The story is told mostly from the point of view of an individual software engineer with several organizational aspects included. The story illustrates some of the common problems encountered in software process improvement efforts. The story is instructive in the way that many of the strange things and problems encountered in it are something to be avoided. Both engineers and managers should note the problems, their reasons, and make sure that those problems will not be encountered in their own organizations.