Author: Grady, Robert
Hardback; Book
314 pages
Published: June 1997
Pearson Professional Education
ISBN: 0136266231
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Provides common-sense, proven techniques and approaches that software managers and developers can use to deliver significant process improvements.This book organizes software process improvement into four proven stages: Plan, Do, Check, and Act. It then thoroughly reviews the steps that managers and developers can take in each stage. It shows how to assess current software processes more effectively, and plan and invest to make software development a core competency of your organization. It presents a thoughtful recommendations for making sure that management stays committed to process improvement for the long-haul. Finally, it describes specific techniques organizations can use to track, validate and place a value upon software process improvements.All software developers, projeOffering a method of improving the way organizations develop software, this guide shows how to plan and develop a competency in software development. Presenting an investment model for software process improvement, it describes methods for sustaining management commitment and generating success.