Using the OPT improvement approach in the SQL/DS development environment

  • Authors:

  • Carolyn B. Seaman

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Maryland

  • Venue:
  • CASCON '94 Proceedings of the 1994 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
  • Year:
  • 1994

  • Process modeling

    Communications of the ACM - Special issue on analysis and modeling in software development

  • OPT: organization and process together

    CASCON '93 Proceedings of the 1993 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research: software engineering - Volume 1

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Abstract

This paper presents the results of an exploratory case study in which the OPT method was applied to a real software development environment. The OPT method is an iterative software development improvement process. It is specifically aimed at organizational structures and development processes. The steps include modeling the relationship between the organization and the process measuring various properties of this relationship, and choosing organizational and process changes that will satisfy a set of goals and constraints. Applying OPT to the IBM Software Solutions Toronto Laboratory SQL/DS project demonstrated that this method helps to clarify issues that arise in the design of software development organizations and processes. Specifically, OPT made it possible to refine general improvement goals and to identify specific changes to be made to the environment to fulfill these goals. This paper summarizes the OPT approach and presents results from the SQL/DS case study.