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

:	Rory V. O’Connor, Nathan Baddoo, Kari Smolander, Richard Messnarz
:	Software Process Improvement 15th European Conference, EuroSPI 2008, Dublin, Ireland, September 3-5, 2008, Proceedings
:	Springer-Verlag
:	9783540859369
:	1
:	CHF 52.40
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:	Sonstiges
:	English

:	225
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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.

	Preface	5
	Organization	9
	Table of Contents	11
	Building a Narrative Based Requirements Engineering Mediation Model	13
	Introduction	13
	Conflict Resolution in RE	14
	A Brief Overview of Narrative Mediation	15
	Narrative Mediation’s Applicability to RE	16
	NREMM	17
	Model Translation Method	18
	NREMM	18
	Conclusion and Future Work	23
	References	23
	Problems Encountered When Implementing Agile Methods in a Very Small Company	25
	Introduction	25
	Why Agile Methods?	26
	Employing Agile Methods	27
	Research Methodology	27
	Case Study	28
	Project Instigation	29
	Effect of Implementing Agile Methods	29
	Problems Encountered	30
	Benefits Derived	33
	So What Went Wrong?	34
	Conclusion	35
	References	35
	A Process Asset Library to Support Software Process Improvement in Small Settings	37
	Introduction	37
	Process Asset Library Goals and Implementation Benefits	39
	The Process Asset Library Goals	39
	Process Asset Library Implementation Benefits	39
	Web-Based Process Assets Library Application Structure	40
	CMMI Model Components Descriptions	42
	Process Assets Library Structure Using CMMI Model Components as a Reference	43
	Components of the Web-Based Process Assets Library for Small Settings	45
	Conclusions	46
	References	46
	Criteria for Estimating Effort for Requirements Changes	48
	Introduction	48
	Literature Review	49
	Empirical Evidence Based on a Collection of Change Request Forms	51
	Proposed Framework	55
	Conclusions and Future Work	56
	References	57
	Productivity of Pair Programming in a Distributed Environment – Results from Two Controlled Case Studies	59
	Introduction	59
	Research Background	60
	SoPro Project	60
	Pair Programming	60
	Productivity	60
	Research Design	61
	Research Method	61
	Data Collection	61
	Research Setting	61
	Projects and Developers	62
	Productivity Factors	62
	Analyses	65
	Results	66
	Validity	67
	Discussion	68
	Conclusions and Future Work	68
	References	69
	Software Functional Size: For Cost Estimation and More	71
	Introduction	71
	Related Research	72
	Uses of Functional Size Measures in Project Management Knowledge Areas	74
	Conclusions	78
	References	80
	Process Reference Guides – Support for Improving Software Processes in Alignment with Reference Models and Standards	82
	Introduction	82
	ASPEI/MSC	83
	Introducing Process Reference Guides	85
	First Experiences	89
	Discussion	90
	Conclusions	91
	References	91
	Practical SPI Planning	94
	Introduction	94
	State of the Art	95
	IDEAL Model	95
	DMAIC Model	96
	Analysis of Project Management of SPI Models	96
	P4SPI Description	97
	Overview	97
	Initiation Phase	97
	Planning Phase	98
	Control and Monitoring	99
	Closure Phase	99
	P4SPI Components	100
	Case Study of CMMI Implementation Using P4SPI	102
	Conclusions	104
	References	104
	Analysis of Dependencies between Specific Practices in CMMI Maturity Level 2	106
	Introduction	106
	Work Products of CMMI Specific Practices	107
	Work Product-Based CMMI Specific Practice Dependencies	108
	Methodology	108
	Specific Practice Dependencies within Process Areas	108
	Specific Practices Dependencies Across Process Areas	113
	Discussion	113
	Interpreting the Model	113
	Validation	113
	Problems with Completeness and Terminology in the CMMI Specification	114
	Discussion of Specific Practice Dependencies and Process Area Relationships	115
	Conclusion	115
	References	116
	A Solution for Establishing the Information Technology Service Management Processes Implementation Sequence	118
	Introduction	118
	Organization and Structure of the ITSM Processes	119
	OPreSSD: Organizational Procedure for Service Support and Service Delivery	120
	Establish Dependency Relationships	120
	Generate Sequence	123
	Summary	127
	References	128
	Modeling and Assessment in IT Service Process Improvement	129
	Introduction	129
	Capability Assessments	130
	Process Assessment Models for IT Service Management	130
	Process Modeling	133
	Experiences of Combined Modeling and Assessment	135
	Integration of the Approaches	136
	Conclusions	138
	References	139
	A Software Engineering Lifecycle Standard for Very Small Enterprises	141
	Introduction	141
	Very Small Enterprises	142
	Characteristics of a VSE	143
	History of the ISO/IEC Working Group for VSEs	144
	Gathering VSE Requirements	145
	Categorization of the Sample According to the Size Criterion	146
	General Characteristics	147
	Use of Standards	147
	The WG24 Approach	148
	Recent Developments	151
	Conclusion and Future Work	151
	References	152
	Lightweight Process Documentation: Just Enough Structure in Automotive Pre-development	154
	Introduction	154
	Related Work	156
	Study Design	156
	Information Flow Basics	156
	Elicitation