Software Process Engineering

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Software Process Engineering

• Dr. Mohamed Fayad, Associate Professor
• Department of Computer Science Engineering
• University of Nebraska, Lincoln
• Ferguson Hall, P.O. Box 880115
• Lincoln, NE 68588-0115
• http//www.cse.unl.edu/fayad

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Lesson 3 Documenting Processes
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Lesson Objectives

• Understand process assessment models
• Evaluate software process improvement
• initiatives
• Understand the recommendations for
• documenting process.
• Discuss the essential process elements

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Criteria for Evaluating SPI Initiatives

• Assessment Process
• Assessment Cost
• Best Practices
• Cost Organization Compliance
• Organizations Size
• Assessment Result Significance
• Time and Effort

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Criteria for Evaluating SPI Initiatives

• The Means of Capability Level to an organization
• Return on Investment (ROI)
• Impact on Productivity
• Impact on Performance
• Tailorability Adaptability
• Repeatability

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Criteria for Evaluating SPI Initiatives

• Simplicity
• Measurability
• Testability
• Stability
• Suitability
• Valueability
• Duration of the Execution of a Process

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What a Process Is Not - 1

• It is not a replacement for experience or skill.
• It does not turn untrained personnel into
  effective workers.
• Process development is not a make-work project
  for incapable employees.
• It does not solve all operational problems.

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What a Process Is Not - 2

• It is not, in itself, the goal of software
  development organization.
• It does not guarantee error-free development, nor
  does it prevent false starts or dead ends.
• It is not a code word for a set of rules that
  management imposes upon subordinates.
• It is not merely a set of written rules.

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Discussion Questions

• Show how to evaluate the process assessment
  processes?
• Show how to evaluate the SPI Initiatives?
• Define
• Process Paralysis

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Questions for the Next Lecture

• Documenting Processes
• Symbolic Notations (Fayad pp. 240-42)
• Documenting Template (Fayad pp, 240-42)
• Activity Diagram

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Tasks for Next Lecture

• Task 1 Bidding for Team Projects
• Task 2 Bidding for Team Assignments
• Task 3 Identify the team members of your team.
  E Mail me their names, e-mails, phone numbers.
• Task 4 Read chapter 13 Fayad Sections 5 to
  13.
• Please note that all deliverables must be
  submitted electronically as MS Word format.

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