Process Improvement and CMMI® for Systems and Software provides a workable approach for achieving cost-effective process improvements for systems and software. Focusing on planning, implementation, and management in system and software processes, it supplies a brief overview of basic strategic...

Die Mitglieder der Atlantic Systems Guild, Verfasser von Bestsellern wie ?Der Termin?, ?Happy to Work Here?, ?Wien wartet auf Dich!? und vielen mehr, haben Tausende von Projekten unter die Lupe genommen und beschreiben hier typische Verhaltensweisen IBM schädliche wie nützliche. Sie zeigen,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance of alignment at the team level. Because teams are important in software development projects, the paper focuses on studying the influence of alignment between the social and technical capabilities on software development team...

Purpose – This study seeks to determine factors that encourage post‐meeting work activity in a software development group by assessing attendee diversity (functional, staffing and tenure), meeting size, and meeting history. Design/methodology/approach – One year's worth of meeting data...

Notes that quality improvement and management practices involve using tools, which are formulated from industrial practices and quality engineering theory. Points out that the seven old Japanese tools are claimed to be able to solve up to 95 per cent of quality‐related problems and that the...

The current subject gateways have evolved over time when the discipline of Internet resource discovery was in its infancy. This is reflected by the lack of well‐established, light‐weight, deployable, easy‐to‐use, standards for metadata and information retrieval. We provide an...