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2005 Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC'05)
pp. 48-57
Tackling the Complexity of Requirements Engineering Process Improvement by Partitioning the Improvement Task
Uolevi Nikula, Lappeenranta University of Technology
Jorma Sajaniemi, University of Joensuu
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Software process improvement is a complex and
expensive endeavor requiring extensive resources and
long term commitment. In the present study software
process improvement (SPI) problems in small
organizations were tackled by dividing the overall effort
into three subtopics: technical infrastructure, working
practices, and management infrastructure. Partitioning
the SPI efforts into these three subtopics makes it
apparent that all of these topics do not need to be tackled
in the same way but some tasks can, e.g., be outsourced.
In this paper the results of an investigation into the use of
the model above in requirements engineering (RE)
process improvement are reported from three industrial
case studies. A domain specific method was constructed
independently of the utilizing companies, i.e., outsourced,
and it was then used in SPI efforts in the companies to
establish a solid infrastructure for basic RE in a short
period of time, with limited resources, and without
previous expertise in RE. It is argued that the suggested
partitioning can both lower the threshold for initiating
software process improvement efforts in industry and
increase the likelihood of successfully completing them.
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Citation:
Uolevi Nikula, Jorma Sajaniemi,
"Tackling the Complexity of Requirements Engineering Process Improvement by Partitioning the Improvement Task,"
aswec,
pp. 48-57,
2005 Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC'05),
2005
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