Product Description

This book will help you to manage and control the quality of your organization's software products. Continually dealing with the problems caused by software defects can be both time-consuming and demanding but Sami Zahran's pragmatic approach will take you from reactive fire-fighting to a preventative culture of disciplined and continuous process improvement. This book will help you: *establish a process-focused software development organizatio *design and implement procedures for developing quality software in time and within budge *benchmark your organization against the industry standards for the software process, including the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), ISO 9001, the new standard ISO/IEC 15504 (originally known as SPICE) and Bootstrap.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1122419 in Books
• Published on: 1998-02-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 480 pages

Review
' In addition to talking about process improvement, Sami Zahran provides useful guidance from a practitioner's perspective...Most importantly he discusses the issues which you, the user, will face as you pursue process improvement on your own' Watts Humphrey, Software Engineering Institute ' Regardless of the approach selected, building competitive advantage should be focused on improvement, not on achieving a score... Dr Zahran's book should help the reader understand the trade-offs and issues associated with effective software process improvement.' Mark C. Paulk, Software Engineering Institute 'This is exactly the kind of book that is needed to spread awareness of the potential of Software Process Improvement and how to succeed in it...It is to be warmly welcomed and recommended.' Colin Tully, Independent Consulting Software Engineer " Software Process Improvement-Practical Guidelines for Business Success provides comprehensive guidance on implementing software process improvement and more... The concluding sections of the book provide excellent summaries of the various Software Process standards/guidelines covering the SEI/CMM, ISO/IEC 15504 (SPICE), Bootstrap, ISO 9000, Trillium and others... With a forward from Watts Humphrey, a preface by the SEI's Mark Paulk, well ordered layout and copious use of diagrams, charts and tables, Dr Zahran's book will provide rewarding reading and an excellent reference work for anyone who is intent on bringing about software process improvement." The Software Manager

From the Back Cover
This book will help you:

• establish a process-focused software development organization
• design and implement procedures for developing quality software in time and within budget
• benchmark your organization against the industry standards for the software process, including the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), ISO 9001, the new standard ISO/IEC 15504 (originally known as SPICE) and Bootstrap.

About the Author

Dr. Sami Zahran is one of the chief advocates of software

process improvement and its impact on organizations. He has

over three decades of experience in the software industry

assuming senior positions with large organizations including

ICL, the United Nations, DEC and currently with IBM. He

was trained in Software Process Improvement at the Software

Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr

Zahran regularly teaches courses on the subject and is an

invited speaker at numerous international conferences and

workshops.

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Customer Reviews

Aimed more at Managers than QA Engineers
I purchased this book because of the good reviews and the 'practical' in the title. Overall this book does a good Job of presenting the 'What' of Continous Process improvement, Plan/Do/Check etc. but lacks the 'How To' which I was looking for as a SQA engineer. I would have liked more 'practical' examples of (e.g.) a compliant Configuration Management Process. The book does give a good 'Overview' of the various Process models - CMM, SPICE etc. but if your looking for a detailed 'How To' implemention guide then I would try elsewhere.

Excellent reference manual for Software Process Improvement
This book is the best implementation guide on the market for Software Process Improvement. Whether you're a fledgling company trying to design quality software with no guidelines to go by or a well-developed organization with processes in place, this book offers up many ways you can improve your software quality.

It gives you a benchmark to compare your company with ISO 9001, CMM and others which is invaluable. If you're looking for help bringing your software processes into alignment - you want this book!

Rewarding reading and an excellent reference
Dr Sami Zahran is a long time advocate and practitioner ofsoftware process improvement with a track record of work in ICL,United Nations, DEC and IBM.

'Software Process Improvement - Practical Guidelines for Business Success' provides comprehensive guidance on implementing software process improvement and more.

In five largely independent sections, Dr Zahran covers, Process Thinking, A Framework for Software Process Improvement, Making Software Process Improvement Happen, Current Models and Standards for Software Process Improvement and Business Benefits of Software Process Improvement.

Finally, there is some data on the benefits of software process improvement and more usefully, a number of detailed case studies of software process improvement experience gained in US and European environments.

With a forward from Watts Humphrey, a preface by the SEI's Mark Paulk, well ordered layout and copious use of diagrams, charts and tables, Dr Zahran's book will provide rewarding reading and an excellent reference work for anyone who is intent on bringing about software process improvement END