CMM Level 3 is all about establishing organizational consistency at the process level not at the procedure level. Co-mingling processes and procedures will lead to enormous resistance because it will over-constrain their projects sub-optimize project performance and make Level 3 a lot harder to achieve than it needs to be.n...

Frameworks represent a rapidly growing field within object-oriented programming. The authors of Framework Process Patterns teach you a patterns approach to framework development through this very interesting sartorial case study.n...

One reason that process documentation remains on the shelf is that it s written as a training manual rather than a checklist for skilled software developers. Pat O Toole explains why your documentation should focus on the vital process elements that lower the probability that critical steps are inadvertently overlooked....

Do your organization s software policies reflect senior management s true value and belief systems or were they copied from the CMM Pat O Toole explains why senior management needs to take a stance and say If you re going to be a member of this organization you are going to behave this way....

Process improvement consultant Pat O Toole suggests a few ways that your project team can truly learn from experience....

If senior management truly wants to transform the organization they have to take a hard look at the existing reward system and ensure that it is rewarding the desired behavior and disincentivizing the behavior they are trying to eliminate. Until they do that their mouths and their money are misaligned.n...

In order to understand whether or not software engineering is for you read Pete McBreen s introduction to software engineering from his book Software Craftsmanship 151; his answers might surprise you....

Of all the ways of approaching the software development lifecycle the waterfall is probably the worst. So why does it continue to dominate our thinking Simple We have failed to let everyone know how software development really works....

Just because it s Friday that doesn t mean that the software is good enough to ship to unsuspecting users. Every manager team leader and developer needs to fight back against the idea that bugs are inevitable and ridicule the pseudo-economic arguments ......

This paper is an interview with Larry Barker president software systems business unit ADC Telecommunications Inc. Thornhill Ontario Canada. Larry Barker explains products and services offered by the software systems unit of ADC what it takes to stay on top of technology and ADC s growth and future....

This Watts New column focuses on the overall trends in our industry and what we will likely see in the future. In particular the forces at work on software-intensive businesses and how businesses are likely to change in response to these forces....

This report looks into the future of software in attempt to encourage and stimulate wider discussion about the long-term software research agenda. The report addresses future software scenarios which addresses the issues how software and society will interact how software will be used how software will behave and how software will be developed....

This paper outlines a visionary research program for systems integration that will improve the reliability and robustness of complex systems of systems. This program self-integrating systems will significantly advance the science underlying computer communication and the engineering of software for network-centric systems....

This paper outlines plans for the proposed development of a theory of software evolution. Apart from its intrinsic value such a theory will advance understanding of the attributes of this phenomenon its drivers and its practical impact on the software process and its products. If achieved such a theory will provide means to identify and justify best...

This position paper is a short introduction to the FEAST project and the laws of software evolution....