Product Focused Software Process Improvement: Concepts and Experiences from Industry

  • Authors:

  • Jos Trienekens;Rob Kusters;Rini Van Solingen

  • Affiliations:

  • Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Technology Management, Den Dolech 2, P.O. Box 513, NL-5600-MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands j.j.m.trienekens@tm.tue.nl;Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Technology Management, Den Dolech 2, P.O. Box 513, NL-5600-MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands;Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Technology Management, Den Dolech 2, P.O. Box 513, NL-5600-MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Software Quality Control
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Management problems in the development of software have been addressed over the last years by a strong focus on the improvement of the development processes. Software process improvement (SPI) activities are characterized by an internal focus on a software development department and its procedures. However, the quality of the product is hardly addressed in software process improvement programs. This paper presents the application of a model for product focused SPI (P-SPI) and describes experiences with this model in practice. The main conclusions are that P-SPI puts products to be developed in a central position in improvement programs, results in fulfilling specific quality goals of a company and project, and industrial experiments show interesting benefits. Applying the approach in industrial projects showed that P-SPI is relatively cheap and gives fast results and high benefits.