Changing role of SPI – opportunities and challenges of process modeling

  • Authors:
  • Antero Järvi;Tuomas Mäkilä;Harri Hakonen

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Technology, University of Turku, Finland;Department of Information Technology, University of Turku, Finland;Department of Information Technology, University of Turku, Finland

  • Venue:
  • EuroSPI'06 Proceedings of the 13th European conference on Software Process Improvement
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Software process modeling is gaining acceptance because of the evolving Software Process Engineering Metamodel (SPEM) language. While carrying out empirical process research in software companies in order to model reusable process components with SPEM, we have faced issues that concern Software Process Improvement (SPI) more generally. To understand the general context we have structured these issues into five important aspects of SPI. In this paper we present each aspect through its challenges and opportunities from the process modeling point of view. Consequently, we claim that by overcoming the challenges, process modeling will bring new concrete opportunities for SPI.