Fifth Framework Programme Information Society Technologies Programme

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Fifth Framework Programme Information Society
Technologies Programme

• Technologies and Engineering for Software,
  Systems and Services
• Best Practice Actions
• September 1999
• Call for Proposals
• DGXIII F/2

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The September call

• Background and objectives
• The call text
• How to propose

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Background

• Past experience ESSI
• Lessons learnt
• What is still to be done?

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ESSI - European System and Software Initiative

• Promoting the adoption of Software Best Practice
  in Europe

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Why Software Best Practice
Competitive advantage
Greater customer satisfaction
Certification is a yardstick for improvement and
not a goal in itself !
Better quality
Better value for money
Real business benefits !
Greater efficiency
Improvements to the software development process
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The ESSI model
Implementation using 7 lines of complementary
actions
Training
ESPINODE
ESBNET
Process Improvement Experiment
Assessment
Dissemination
Experience/User Networks
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Key messages from ESSI

• Process before technology
• A well defined process is a prerequisite for
  long-term improvement
• People and Soft Issues are important
• Training of People shall not be forgotten

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Industrial Impact

• over 5.000 organisations involved in Experiments
• 80 are SMEs
• full spectrum of industrial sectors covered
• Largest repository of software best practice
  cases
• trained more than 20.000 professionals
• experience and awareness transfer to more than
  15,000 professionals

Software Best Practice
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Impact so far

• Higher project awareness in smaller SWD companies
• Higher competitiveness, improvement in
  productivity
• Improvement in employees attitude (in project)
• Cultural turning point
• Certifications (like ISO)
• Some learned what they should do, but ...

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Still Barriers of SPI are

• Still too often the move towards
  improvement remains technology driven
• Lack of maturity of the tools and the support for
  them
• Missing a business driver leads to an invisible
  ROI
• And the greatest of all
• Missing commitment of Senior Management gap
  between practitioners and managers

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Objectives

• continue and improve the work done so far
• focus on those themes which have not reached the
  critical mass yet
• support to create show cases for replication for
  those themes which offer sufficient experience
  (e.g. conf. mgmt, testing)
• maintain the set of complementary activities
  (single actions, support nodes and dissemination)

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The call text

• The Software Component-based Initiative
• The single actions
• The support nodes
• The accompanying measures for dissemination

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The Software Components Initiative

• aims to promote Europe-wide use of
  component-based approach to the development and
  engineering of software systems, applications and
  services
• includes several action lines
• includes Best Practice and Trial actions
• in particular it includes Best Practice actions
  for Action Line IV.3.1 - Component-based software
  engineering

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The Software Best Practice Action

• To improve the software development process
• small step
• measurements of improvement
• on underlying baseline
• single partner
• obligation to disseminate
• co-operation with support node
• time frame 9 to 24 months

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The Software Best Practice Action (cont.)

• funding
• contract
• Accompanying measures AM/AM-TU
• Keyword BESTP

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The Support Nodes

• on time support to the single actions
• to create synergies among single actions
• to package results for replication
• to foster replication
• nodes will be networked at European level
• at the moment of writing there are two
  possibilities under discussion
• call for tender
• call for proposals

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The Dissemination

• implemented via the Accompanying Measure VIII.3.1
• with the objectives of
• raising awareness
• spreading the results of experiences run
• continuous submission

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How to propose -the relevant documents

• The Workprogramme
• description of action lines
• The Proposers Guides and the forms
• how to structure and present a proposal
• The evaluation manual
• the criteria under which the proposal will be
  evaluated

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How to propose -to assemble a proposal

• Part A - administrative and budget information
• can be filled with the support of the ProTool
• Part B and C - the contents has to be defined
  according to the Guide for Proposers
• The criteria for evaluating the proposal are
  specified in the Evaluation manual

NB there are weights and thresholds
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How to propose -the submission

• electronically pre-registration to be requested
  for electronic signature
• on paper 1 original and 5 copies to be
  delivered to the Commission
• please mark on the envelope IST Programme in
  addition to what specified

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Further information

• Web site
• http//www.cordis.lu/ist
• Helpdesk
• fax [phone]
• e-mail ist_at_cec.be
• Unit web site
• http//www.cordis.lu/ist/ka4/tesss