| Focus
on Dr. Herb Krasner |
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CAI State of the Practice Interview |
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A
CAI State of the Practice Interview with Dr. Herb Krasner |
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Herb
Krasner is a senior faculty member at the University of
Texas at Austin, and the Director of the Software Engineering
Industry Affiliates Program. He is also a successful software
excellence consultant and President of Krasner Consulting.
His personal mission, spanning several decades, has been
to enable the development of superior software, and to stamp
out poor quality software, wherever found. He is best known
for his leading edge work on modeling the costs of software
quality, reporting the ROI data for software process improvement,
coaching organizational improvement programs and reporting
the results from his empirical studies of professional programmers.
He has published over 55 papers, articles and book sections,
has spoken at many professional conferences and meetings,
and is active in professional organizations and societies.
Our interview with Professor Krasner took place in June
of 2005. |
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Here for the Interview with Dr. Krasner! |
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Accumulating
the Body of Evidence for The Payoff of Software Process
Improvement |
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Many
companies in many different business sectors are reporting
successful SPI programs. They report ROI figures between
5 to 1 and 9 to 1. This article by Herb Krasner summarizes
SPI programs which have emerged in recent years while also
exploring case histories, documenting ROI payoff data across
business sectors, and examining other measures of payoff.
It provides an outstanding introduction to the topic of
SPI and is rich with data as well as bibliographic references
(18 pages) |
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Here to Read the Article! |
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Using
the Cost of Quality Approach for Software |
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Cost
of software quality (CoSQ) is an accounting technique that
is useful to enable our understanding of the economic trade-offs
involved in delivering good-quality software. Commonly used
in manufacturing, its adaptation to software offers the
promise of preventing poor quality but, unfortunately, has
seen little use to date. This article by Herb Krasner discusses
the rationale and context for using CoSQ, then defines a
basic CoSQ model that differentiates the costs involved
with handling nonconformances due to a lack of quality,
appraisal efforts performed for the achievement of acceptable
quality, and efforts to prevent poor quality from occurring.
(6 pages) |
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Site
of the Week |
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The
Software Process Resource Collection |
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Book
of the Week |
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Software
Process Improvement by Robin B. Hunter (Editor), Richard
B. Thayer (Editor) |
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From
the Book Description: "The creation of quality software
on time and within budget has been a major problem facing
the software industry for several decades. Consideration
of software development and maintenance as an engineering
discipline to control the developmental process can help
alleviate these obstacles. This new book focuses on the
best practices for software process improvement (SPI) and
related international standards providing a valuable guide
and reference. The text is a collection of original and
republished papers providing a significant survey on the
use of SPI and software process assessment (SPA) as practiced
by companies such as Lockheed Martin, Siemens, and Hewlett
Packard. Among the important features of the book are chapters
on software process evaluation, how to best perform SPI,
ISO 9000 and TickIT-an alternative approach to SPA, as well
as the latest information on the CMM integration project.
The text also provides vivid descriptions on the most important
international and national standards for SPI, in particular
ISO 9001, ISO 9000-3, ISO/IEC 9126. ISO/IEC 15504, ISO/IEC
12207. Software Process Improvement benefits software managers
who want to learn about the requirements and effects of
SPI, software process staff who need to understand the mechanisms
of SPA and SPI, software developers who are affected by
SPI and need to know how to apply it, and college students
who want to understand the various methods of SPA and SPI".
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| 6. |
Archives |
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Special
Edition: Interview with Dr. Michael Cusumano, MIT Sloan
School of Management |
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| 7. |
FAQ |
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What
is the IT Metrics & Productivity Journal? |
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