The AMETIST process improvement experiment: towards efficient team development in small companies
✍ Scribed by K. Thorwart
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 145 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1077-4866
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Source code is the most exact specification of what a program is doing. Documentation is an unnecessary overhead which increases maintenance effort and bears the danger of inconsistency. A programmer must learn to read source code like other people read normal text. This learning process will take some time but if a programmer has got it he will be very efficient. ' This was the answer the author got from the longest serving developer of ROSE Informatik when he for the first time heavily complained about the lack of documentation. It was the starting point of a discussion which finally led to the process improvement experiment (PIE) which is subject of this paper. It shows how a small software producing organization started to transform its 'heroic' way of programming into effective team development using state of the art software engineering methods.