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Documenting Evolutionary Process Improvements with Method Increment Case Descriptions

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Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2012)

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Evolutionary process improvement is a common approach to manage the complexity and risk of large software process improvement efforts. Performing SPI through a sequence of small steps allows organizations to reflect and steer the effort often and avoid failed improvements. However, few methods currently exist to structure improvement paths in a clear and concise manner. In this paper, we present a template for such a structuring method, based on Use Case Descriptions and method engineering techniques. A concise description of improvement paths allow organizations to reflect on their implementation and to guide similar improvement efforts. A case study of two large improvements within a small Dutch software company is used for evaluation.

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  1. Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80.007, 3508, TA, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Peter van Stijn, Kevin Vlaanderen & Sjaak Brinkkemper

  2. Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081, HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Inge van de Weerd

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van Stijn, P., Vlaanderen, K., Brinkkemper, S., van de Weerd, I. (2012). Documenting Evolutionary Process Improvements with Method Increment Case Descriptions. In: Winkler, D., O’Connor, R.V., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 301. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31199-4_17

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