Developing software products is a complex and demanding process. Systematic practices are needed, from idea to final product, in order to produce a high quality product. Qualitative software is produced by applying a systematic, disciplined and quantifiable approach to the entire development
For market-driven companies the market department has the role to analyse the market and gather the necessary information for the development procedure. In this master thesis problems in a small market-driven software development company are discussed. Problems such as fast changes in
Software process improvement is often mentioned in today?s software marketplace. To be able to do process improvement, the organisation must have a process to improve from. These processes are commonly deviated from, and the PDU/PAY organisation at Ericsson AB has experienced that
Purpose: Investigate and examine industry practice with regards to evaluation of process improvement, identification of measures and methods for success evaluations. The main reasoning is to use empirical data from industry, data from academia and research as input for suggesting proposals for
In recent years, the companies and organizations around the world are showing great interests in quality. Six Sigma approach is a structured quantitative method which is invented by Motorola in 1986 for improving the product quality. Abstract Modern society has a higher
Title: A Software Process Improvement Framework for Small Organizations – A Research Approach More than 90 percent of the software organizations on the market today employ 20 employees or less. Despite of this little academic attention has been devoted to software process
Software process improvements are required to increase the productivity of software companies. Generally, it is the aim to increase the quality of the produced software and to keep budget and time. Quality models for software process improvements were developed in context of