Introducing Reuse in Companies: A Survey of European Experiences

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Introducing Reuse in Companies A Survey of
European Experiences

• The paper presents the initial results from the
  Surprise project whose goal was to identify key
  factors in adopting and running a companywide
  reuse program.
• Systematic reuse is generally recognized as a
  key technology to improve the software process

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Some claims in paper

• Size is not a single success/failure factor
• Failures and successes happen in product- family
  companies, suggesting that a product-family
  oriented production is not a success factor per
  se
• Process maturity appears to be useful but not
  sufficient to achieve success
• ..commitment from leaders is a key success
  factor

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Two types of relationships among reused work
products

• Loose
• Reusable work products are independent and can
  be reused in isolation.
• Tight
• Reusable work products are designed to be
  closely related, reuse of a single work product
  involves reuse of a complete set of work products

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Improving an Evolutionary Development Process A
Case Study

• Paper aims to define and evaluate the Genova
  process (light weight RUP) an evolutionary
  development process.
• Believe that RUP is too heavy weight for many
  small and medium sized projects (Too many
  artefacts/deliverables, roles and activities) .

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Evolutionary development

• Main idea is to resolve (reduce) risks early by
  incrementally evolving the system towards
  completion instead on relying on the traditional
  big-bang waterfall approach.
• An important objective of evolutionary
  development is to identify the real needs of
  the customer as the system evolves.

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The Genova evolutionary delivery life cycle