Software Process Improvement: Practical Guidelines for Business Success (SEI Series in Software Engineering)

Zahran, Sami

ISBN 10: 020117782X / ISBN 13: 9780201177824

Published by Addison-Wesley, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Software Process Improvement: Practical Guidelines for Business Success (SEI Series in Software Engineering)
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 020117782X
• ISBN 13: 9780201177824
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 750 grams

About this title

Synopsis

This book will help you to manage and control the quality of your organization's software products. Continually dealing with the problems caused by software defects can be both time-consuming and demanding but Sami Zahran's pragmatic approach will take you from reactive fire-fighting to a preventative culture of disciplined and continuous process improvement.

This book will help you:

• establish a process-focused software development organizatio
• design and implement procedures for developing quality software in time and within budge
• benchmark your organization against the industry standards for the software process, including the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), ISO 9001, the new standard ISO/IEC 15504 (originally known as SPICE) and Bootstrap.

 

About the Author

Dr. Sami Zahran is one of the chief advocates of software

process improvement and its impact on organizations. He has

over three decades of experience in the software industry

assuming senior positions with large organizations including

ICL, the United Nations, DEC and currently with IBM. He

was trained in Software Process Improvement at the Software

Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr

Zahran regularly teaches courses on the subject and is an

invited speaker at numerous international conferences and

workshops.

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