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	Software development process - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		ISO 15504, also known as Software Process Improvement Capability Determination (SPICE), is a "framework for the assessment of software processes".
		With large numbers of software projects not meeting their expectations in terms of functionality, cost, or delivery schedule, effective project management is proving difficult.
		Agile software development processes are built on the foundation of iterative development.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Software_development_process (1788 words)

	SOFTWARE PROCESS STANDARD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The standard will provide software suppliers the benefits of submitting to just one process assessment scheme; the software developers will have a tool to initiate and sustain a continuous process improvement; the purchaser of software will determine the capability of the software suppliers and assess the risk involved in selecting one supplier over another.
		Process Capability Determination (PCD is defined as analyzing the competence of selected processes against a target process capability profile in order to identify the risks involved in undertaking a project using the selected processes.
		Process assessment according to SPICE is meant to "examine the processes used by organization to determine whether they are effective in achieving their goals.
	www.cs.usask.ca /grads/aao804/pro-standard.html (2794 words)

	Software Process Improvement (SPI) Best Practices
		The reality of process improvement is that you cannot make all of the changes that you want to immediately; it is simply too great a change for your organization to absorb at once.
		The implication is that by knowing which aspects of a software process map to which CMM maturity levels you have a rough idea of the order in which you should introduce those processes to your staff.
		Process improvement is a complex and difficult endeavor, one for which you are likely to need help to accomplish.
	www.ambysoft.com /essays/spiTips.html (2083 words)

	IndiaSoftware.com - Standards & Licensing
		This is an organisational improvement model that serves as a roadmap for initiating, planning, and implementing improvement actions.
		This standard laid down by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is aimed at radically improving the ability of software organisations to attract, develop, motivate, organise, and retain the talent needed to continuously improve software development capability.
		Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination (SPICE) is a major international initiative to support the development of an International Standard for Software Process Assessment.
	www.indiasoftware.com /resources/standards.html (671 words)

	ESSI-SCOPE Software Process Improvement Approaches - SPICE
		Capability determination however is concerned with assessing an organisation or project in order to determine risks to the successful outcome of a contract, development or service delivery.
		The support process category consists of processes that may be employed by any of the other processes (including other supporting processes) at various points in the software life cycle.
		The management process category consists of processes that contain practices of a generic nature that may be used by anyone who manages any type of project or process within a software life cycle.
	www.cse.dcu.ie /essiscope/sm5/approach/spice-2.html (829 words)

	Software development process - Free net encyclopedia
		Template:Cleanup-date Template:Software-development-process A software development process is a structure imposed on the development of a software product.
		One source of difficulty is that the number of dependencies among the artifacts (outputs) of the various steps is surprisingly high, much higher in a typical software project than in a typical building project.
		Although the lesson that the waterfall model doesn't work very well is known among software engineers, that lesson seems lost on many managers or executives.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Software_development (1597 words)

	Project management
		After this crisis, the United States Department of Defense needed to speed up the military project process and new tools (models) for achieving this goal were invented.
		The main thrust of Process Management is the concept of knowledge management.
		It is the experience of companies that use these models that the creation of a set of defined processes detailing what the company actually does has enabled them to achieve consistency across project teams and project.
	www.nebulasearch.com /encyclopedia/article/Project_management.html (1123 words)

	DACS SEBD Search Results - SPIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The training process is the sequence of activities that are performed whenever a training cycle is enacted, typically on an annual basis.
		Software companies are investing time and money in reengineering processes incorporating improvements aimed at reducing their cycle time.
		Unfortunately, the impact of process improvements on the cycle time of complex software processes is not well understood.
	www.dacs.dtic.mil /topics/cetm/spin.shtml (2296 words)

	Process Improvement Models (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Software Process Improvement and Capability determination (SPICE) model, currently undergoing trial testing in Europe, is based on a continuous model of process improvement, as opposed to the staged model that is used in the CMM.
		Software Configuration Management (SCM), for example, is specified and judged at maturity "Level 2 - Repeatable Process" of the CMM.
		This interest is attributed to the fact that software acquisition is practiced by an increasingly larger number of organizations.
	dacs.dtic.mil /awareness/newsletters/winter94/process_improvement.html (730 words)

	2nd International Software Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination Conference (SPICE'2002)
		Papers related to the topics of Software Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination, based upon the use of ISO/IEC 15504, are invited for the conference.
		One of the basic intentions of this conference is to offer a forum for discussion and exchange of experience in the use of process assessment in the contexts of improvement and capability determination.
		For this reason practitioners involved in use of process assessment are invited not only to join the conference but also to contribute by submitting papers or presenting innovative tools or solutions.
	www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be /~dirk/ada-belgium/events/02/020314-spice.html (443 words)

	A Tool for planning Software Process Improvement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Determining which are the appropriate parameters to measure is part of the research.
		This spreadsheet was shown to the ICL Development Process Improvement team as an example of the sort of model we could build and of the sort of data we would require them to provide.
		The principal beneficiaries will be Software Manufacturers in terms of their ability to improve their own processes and Software Consultants (including the University) in terms of their ability to consult with and provide support for such companies.
	www.ecs.soton.ac.uk /~peter/cmm45/CMM45_proposal.htm (3320 words)

	ISCN - Training Portfolio
		Software managers and practitioners interested in Software Process Improvement using SPICE (Software Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination).
		Delegates with little or no software process assessment knowledge, skills and experience will learn how to be able to perform assessments according to the requirements of ISO/IEC 15504 in the software sector.
		Delegates with previous experience of software process assessment techniques will have the opportunity to test and improve their skills through interaction with experienced and competent assessors under controlled conditions.
	www.iscn.com /training/event/spice_010903.html (1754 words)

	OOSPICE
		Its main objectives are a unified CBD process metamodel, a CBD assessment methodology delivering component-provider capability profiles and an assessment software tool, a CBD methodology together with a CBD software tool, and proposed extensions to the ISO/IEC 15504 process assessment standard.
		The assessment model will expand the CBD process metamodel by adding the definition of indicators of process capability like base practices, generic work products and their characteristics.
		The result of an assessment will be a profile of processes showing their maturity and providing benchmarks for identifying and monitoring improvements.
	www.sea.uni-linz.ac.at /research/projects/oospice (381 words)

	process improvement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Copyright 2004 Association for Work Process Improvement Copyright 2003 The Association for Work Process Improvement TODAY magazine is developing a special supplement for the April 2004 issue focusing on topics related to image capture and archiving.
		HPK Group uses lean manufacturing, TOC, and process improvement techniques to leverage operational resources for higher profits, lower operating expenses.
		Process Improvement Engineering: Chemical engineering consultants specializing in continuous chemical plant and oil refinery troubleshooting, operation, and design.
	www.1st-in-management.com /process-management/process-improvement.htm (406 words)

	software process improvement practice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		ISSN Software Process Improvement and Practice Volume Cattaneo Alfonso Fuggetta Donatella Sciuto Pursuing coherence in software process assessment and improvement.
		SPICE The Theory and Practice of Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination.
		ISSN Project Initiation Handbook" and "Software Process Improvement Handbook" and "IEEE Recommended Practice for Software Acquisition." This set of process assets may Software Process Improvement and Practice Volume Cattaneo Alfonso Fuggetta Donatella Sciuto Pursuing coherence in software process assessment and improvement.
	improvementprocess.infoden.info /software-process-improvement-practice (684 words)

	An International Collaboration to Develop a Standard on Software Process Assessment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The prospective standard is intended to, among other things, establish a common framework for expressing the process capability ratings resulting from a 15504-conformant assessment and to provide a migration path for existing assessment models and methods wishing to become 15504-conformant.
		The effort is being carried out under the auspices of a joint technical committee of the International Standardization Organization and the International Electrotechnical Commission and is expected to culminate in a new international standard in the 1999-2001 timeframe.
		The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense and operated by Carnegie Mellon University.
	www.sei.cmu.edu /iso-15504 (335 words)

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		Allied Research Centres' Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination (SPICE) SPICE is a major international initiative to develop a Standard for Software Process Assessment.
		Software Quality and Productivity in Europe - The purpose of this research project is the examination of effective procedures for the evaluation of software products and processes, and the concept of an open, adaptable support system or interactive, rule-driven software quality assurance.
		The Software Engineering Institute develops models, frameworks, diagnostics, methods, standards, techniques, and architectures that help our customers to make measured improvements in their software engineering capability.
	www.quality.org /html/sw-eng.html (584 words)

	6th International SPICE Conference on Software Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination (SPICE'2006)
		This Conference follows on from the success of previous SPICE conferences, and builds upon the achievements of the International SPICE Symposia held on a regular basis since 1994.
		The conference program is available; please, visit and register on: www.spice2006.com (Early registration up to April 8th, 2006) This conference is sponsored by DEXIA-Bil, Cargolux and PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and is supported by the "Fonds National de la Recherche" in Luxembourg.
		Submissions on all aspects of process assessment and improvement are welcome.
	www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be /~dirk/ada-belgium/events/06/060503-spice.html (606 words)

	Ebert, Dumke, Bundschuh, Schmietendorf - Best Practices in Software Measurement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		(eds.) Software Measurement and Estimation – Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Software Measurement, 2002, Shaker Aachen (2002) ISBN 3-8322-0765-1, pp.
		Software Process – Improvement and Practice, 4: pp.
		In: IWSM’03: Investigations in Software Measurement, ed by Dumke, R., Abran, A., 13th International Workshop on Software Measurement, Montreal, September 2003, Shaker, Aachen (2003) pp.
	metrics.cs.uni-magdeburg.de /literature.html (3076 words)

	Wiley::SPICE: The Theory and Practice of Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination
		Wiley::SPICE: The Theory and Practice of Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination
		Software Engineering Risk Management: Finding Your Path through the Jungle, Version 1.0 for Windows (Software)
		The SPICE (Software Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination) Project is a joint effort by the ISO and IEC to create an international standard for software process assessment.
	www.wiley.com /WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0818677988.html (275 words)

	Software Testers' Bookshelf -- The QualitySource
		Norman Fenton, Software Metrics: A Rigorous Approach 1991.
		Edward F. Miller, Automated Software Testing Seminar, Videotape of a seminar given at IBM Thornwood, New York April, 1988.
		Software Productivity Consortium, Improving the Software Process Through Process Definition and Modeling (International Thomson Computer Press) Boston, Massachusetts 1996.
	www.soft.com /Institute/QualitySource/name.list.html (5209 words)

	Softpicks software related online book store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Distributed Software Agents and Applications: 6th European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World, Maamaw'94, Odense, Denmark,...
		This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World, MAAMAW '94, held in Oden...
		The SPICE (Software Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination) Project is a joint effort by the ISO and IEC to create an international standard for...
	books.softpicks.net /list/page529.htm (174 words)

	4th International SPICE Conference on Process Assessment and Improvement
		The conference is hosted by Critical Software SA on behalf of the SPICE User Group.
		SPICE started as an international initiative, with the objective of developing an International Standard for Software Process Assessment and encouraging take-up and use.
		The first version of the standard was published in 1998 and is currently being revised and being re-published during 2003/2004.
	www.allconferences.com /conferences/20040101200029 (200 words)

	Publications by Prof. Jonathan P. Bowen
		AQuIS 2002: 5th International Conference on Achieving Quality In Software - SPICE 2002: International Conference on Software Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination, Venice, Italy, 12-14 March 2002, pages 7-18, 2002.
		Formalization of Software Testing Criteria using the Z Notation, Sergiy A. Vilkomir and Jonathan P. Bowen.
		Software for the Public Domain, pages 102-114, Univ. Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, September 1995.
	myweb.lsbu.ac.uk /~bowenjp/publications.html (5091 words)

	Wiley::SPICE: The Theory and Practice of Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination
		Wiley > Engineering > Software Engineering > Software Design > SPICE: The Theory and Practice of Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination
		Elements of Software Process Assessment & Improvement (Paperback)
		Practical Support for CMMI - SW Software Project Documentation: Using IEEE Software Engineering Standards (Paperback)
	eu.wiley.com /WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0818677988.html (275 words)

	Links to the best SPICE Sites
		Our links are monitored regularly to ensure they are not broken or out-dated.
		SPICE - Software Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination, ISO 15504
		Old versions of the SPICE documentation can be downloaded for free.
	www.software-pointers.com /en-spice.html (46 words)

	Links to the best Process Improvement Sites
		CMM / CMMI (52) - Capabilities Maturity Model / Integration
		PSP / TSP (6) - Personal / Team Software Process
		SPICE (15) - Software Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination, ISO 15504
	www.software-pointers.com /en-spi.html (56 words)

	Test Page for the SSL/TLS-aware Apache Installation on Web Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		If you can see this page, then the people who own this website have just installed the Apache Web server software and the Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl) successfully.
		They now have to add content to this directory and replace this placeholder page, or else point the server at their real content.
		.) Although this site is running the Apache software it almost certainly has no other connection to the Apache Group, so please do not send mail about this site or its contents to the Apache authors.
	process-improvement.redhawknorth.com (140 words)

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