Book details
by Joshua Barnes
Published: 8 Jun 2007
ISBN: 978-0-32-136945-1
Whether you’re an executive, software professional, or consultant, this book will help you continuously improve the maturity of your development processes–and reap the benefits: better quality, faster delivery, and more business value.
After reading this book you will be able to
- Get past the myths of software process improvement to focus on what’s truly practical
- Identify and evaluate your best candidate process solutions
- Objectively project the ROI achievable with IBM R UP and IBM Rational solutions
- Develop funding models, business cases, and executive support
- Recruit, staff, organize, and motivate your implementation team
- Plan for effective integration, process alignment, and change management
- Choose the right pilots, learn the right lessons, and develop effective adoption models
- Move quickly to successful program-level implementation
- Set maturity level goals for process and tool utilization
- Map “End States” for both quantity and quality
- Plan for training and mentoring–and understand the distinct role of each
- Keep the momentum going after your implementation is complete