Software Process Improvement: Metrics, Measurement, and Process Modelling: Software Best Practice 4

✍ Scribed by Michael Haug, Eric W. Olsen, Lars Bergman (auth.), Michael Haug, Eric W. Olsen, Lars Bergman (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 398
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a result of the European Experience Exchange (EUREX) project sponsored by the European Systems and Soft- ware Initiative for Software Best Practice in Europe. The EUREX project analyzed the industrial and economic impact and the common aspects and differences between and among mo- re than 300 software Process Improvement Experiments sponso- red by the EU.
Metrics is a basis for software process improvements. This book presents experiences from a number of metrics applica- tions in European software companies and gives experience- based ideas and models for the Why, When, What, and How of metrics for the management and the improvement of software processes.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Software Process Improvement A European View....Pages 3-15
The EUREX Project....Pages 17-24
The EUREX Taxonomy....Pages 25-30
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
Perspectives....Pages 33-81
Resources for Practitioners....Pages 83-100
Experience Reports....Pages 101-255
Lessons from the EUREX Workshops....Pages 257-304
Significant Results: Benefits, Costs, and Processes....Pages 305-327
Front Matter....Pages 329-329
Table of PIEs....Pages 331-334
Summaries of PIE Reports....Pages 335-379
Back Matter....Pages 381-391

✦ Subjects

Software Engineering; Management of Computing and Information Systems; Business Information Systems