TY - GEN
T1 - Managing the improvement of SCM process
AU - Visconti, Marcello
AU - Villarroel, Rodolfo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - This article presents a framework for improving the Software Configuration Management (SCM) process, that includes a maturity model to assess software organizations and an approach to guide the transition from diagnosis to action planning. The maturity model and assessment tool are useful to identify the degree of satisfaction for practices considered key for SCM. The transition approach is also important because the application of a model to produce a diagnosis is just a first step, organizations are demanding the generation of action plans to implement the recommendations. The proposed framework has been used to assess a number of software organizations and to generate the basis to build an action plan for improvement. In summary, this article shows that the maturity model and action planning approach are instrumental to reach higher SCM control and visibility, therefore producing higher quality software.
AB - This article presents a framework for improving the Software Configuration Management (SCM) process, that includes a maturity model to assess software organizations and an approach to guide the transition from diagnosis to action planning. The maturity model and assessment tool are useful to identify the degree of satisfaction for practices considered key for SCM. The transition approach is also important because the application of a model to produce a diagnosis is just a first step, organizations are demanding the generation of action plans to implement the recommendations. The proposed framework has been used to assess a number of software organizations and to generate the basis to build an action plan for improvement. In summary, this article shows that the maturity model and action planning approach are instrumental to reach higher SCM control and visibility, therefore producing higher quality software.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84949962543&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/3-540-36209-6_6
DO - 10.1007/3-540-36209-6_6
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84949962543
SN - 3540002340
SN - 9783540002345
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 35
EP - 48
BT - Product Focused Software Process Improvement - 4th International Conference, PROFES 2002, Proceedings
A2 - Oivo, Markku
A2 - Komi-Sirvio, Seija
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 4th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2002
Y2 - 9 December 2002 through 11 December 2002
ER -