Making Process Improvement Work
A concise action guide for software managers and practitioners
Software process improvement too often reflects disconnect between theory and practice. This book bridges the gap giving neat approach to software improvements programs that really work.
It gives important strategies for deploying organizational change and essential metrics for tracking your progress. Some of the things are like - Scope and develop improvement plan. Identify and give priority to risks and derive metrics that accurately measure progress toward business goals. Sell your improvement program in house, initially target practitioners and projects most open to new approaches and techniques. Align the actions of managers and use existing resources to speed deployment. Checking progress is an essential activity that provides the organization with feedback during execution of improvement program. Keep measuring defect density and end user customer satisfaction. Determine the primary business goals and problems to your group. Identify potential problems with action plan and plan to mitigate the highest priority risks.
