Software Process Improvement: 15th European Conference, EuroSPI 2008 Dublin, Ireland, September 3-5, 2008 Proceedings

by O'connor, Rory V.; Baddoo, Nathan; Smolander, Kari; Messnarz, Richard

• ISBN13: 9783540859345
• ISBN10: 3540859349
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-01
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th European Conference, EuroSPI 2008, Dublin, Ireland, September 2008. The 18 revised full papers presented together with one introductory paper were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on organisational issues; productivity, effort estimation metrics; standards reference models; documentation knowledge management as well as project issues.

Table of Contents

Organizational Issues
Building a Narrative Based Requirements Engineering Mediation Model	p. 1
Problems Encountered When Implementing Agile Methods in a Very Small Company	p. 13
A Process Asset Library to Support Software Process Improvement in Small Settings	p. 25
Productivity, Effort Estimation and Metrics
Criteria for Estimating Effort for Requirements Changes	p. 36
Productivity of Pair Programming in a Distributed Environment - Results from Two Controlled Case Studies	p. 47
Software Functional Size: For Cost Estimation and More	p. 59
Standards and Reference Models
Process Reference Guides - Support for Improving Software Processes in Alignment with Reference Models and Standards	p. 70
Practical SPI Planning	p. 82
Analysis of Dependencies between Specific Practices in CMMI Maturity Level 2	p. 94
A Solution for Establishing the Information Technology Service Management Processes Implementation Sequence	p. 106
Modeling and Assessment in IT Service Process Improvement	p. 117
A Software Engineering Lifecycle Standard for Very Small Enterprises	p. 129
Documentation and Knowledge Management
Lightweight Process Documentation: Just Enough Structure in Automotive Pre-development	p. 142
Employees' Motivation for SPI: Case Study in a Small Finnish Software Company	p. 152
A Knowledge Management Approach to Support Software Process Improvement Implementation Initiatives	p. 164
Project Issues
An Operational Approach for Selecting Open Source Components in a Software Development Project	p. 176
A Case Study of Coordination in Distributed Agile Software Development	p. 189
ProPAMet: A Metric for Process and Project Alignment	p. 201
Author Index	p. 213
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