SADT: structured analysis and design technique
SADT: structured analysis and design technique
Managing the software process
CASE: a testbed for modeling, measurement and management
Communications of the ACM
High-pressure steam engines and computer software
ICSE '92 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering
Setting quality sights on HR management in IS
SIGCPR '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research
Integrating total quality management with software engineering education
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
Identifying different paradigms for managing information technology
SIGCPR '93 Proceedings of the 1993 conference on Computer personnel research
Four recommendations; one challenge
Computer
Bootstrap: Fine-Tuning Process Assessment
IEEE Software
Managing CASE introduction: beyond software process maturity
SIGCPR '94 Proceedings of the 1994 computer personnel research conference on Reinventing IS : managing information technology in changing organizations: managing information technology in changing organizations
Model based process assessments
ICSE '93 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Software Engineering
Application of statistical process control to the software process
WADAS '92 Proceedings of the ninth Washington Ada symposium on Ada: Empowering software users and developers
Measuring Process Consistency: Implications for Reducing Software Defects
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Situated assessment of problems in software development
ACM SIGMIS Database - Special issue on infomration systems: current issues and future changes
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
The Internal Consistencies of the 1987 SEI Maturity Questionnaireand the SPICE Capability Dimension
Empirical Software Engineering
Evaluating the CMM Level 3 KPA of Intergroup Coordination: A theory-based approach
Information Technology and Management
An empirical evaluation of the G/Q/M method
CASCON '93 Proceedings of the 1993 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research: software engineering - Volume 1
CASCON '93 Proceedings of the 1993 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research: software engineering - Volume 1
Software process improvement as emergent change: A structurational analysis
Information and Software Technology
Investigating software process in practice: A grounded theory perspective
Journal of Systems and Software
Empirical Software Engineering
Project management process framework for developing and IT systems
ICCOMP'08 Proceedings of the 12th WSEAS international conference on Computers
Simple indicators for tracking software process improvement progress
EuroSPI'06 Proceedings of the 13th European conference on Software Process Improvement
Prescription, description, reflection: the shape of the software process improvement field
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
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The methods used by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI's) Software Capability Evaluation program (SCE) are assessed. The goal of the SCE program is to provide the US Defense Department with a method by which it can rank the overall capability of organizations to produce software in a timely, repeatable fashion. Because SEI assessments are a preparation for SCEs, the authors first describe the major steps in an SEI process assessment and highlight its strengths and weaknesses. The SCE grading methods are described, focusing on their statistical reliability. It is concluded that the system is so seriously and fundamentally flawed that it should be abandoned rather than modified or updated. SEI's overall process-improvement paradigm, that is, the set of goals and directions it is trying to impart to the industry through its assessment and evaluation programs, is examined. It is suggested that the assessment program needs some type of structured, preferably graphical, method for recording the details of an organization's existing processes.