Workflow Modeling Tools for Process Improvement and Application Development

In todays fiercely competitive marketplace, it is of vital importance that work flows through an organization as efficiently as possible in order to achieve long-term success. This new hands-on book teaches business and technical professionals how to buil...

  CMM implementation guide Choreographing software process improvement

The Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model (CMM) has been widely adopted by companies seeking enhanced quality and heightened productivity in software development. The CMM enables managers to measure their organization's capabilities a...

 CMMI Survival Guide Just Enough Process Improvement

The CMMI provides a framework for process improvement spanning the life cycle of a product or service, from conception through delivery and maintenance. Widely and beneficially adopted around the world, the size and apparent complexity of the framework ha...

  Action Focused Assessment for Software Process Improvement

If you're involved with development of software or systems, this informative book is designed to help you manage process improvement initiatives, within your company, by explaining the history, method and psychology behind Action Focused Assessment (AFA)....

 Accelerating Process Improvement Using Agile Techniques

Accelerating Process Improvement Using Agile Techniques explains how agile programming is applied to standard process improvement. By applying agile techniques, IT organizations can speed up process improvement initiatives, minimize the resources these in...

 Process Assessment and Improvement A practical guide for managers, quality professionals and assessors

Process Assessment and Improvement: A Practical Guide For Managers, Quality Professionals and Assessors provides the reader with a powerful and practical approach to improving their organization through process assessment, combined with people factors suc...

 CMMI SCAMPI Distilled Appraisal for Process Improvement

The Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement (SCAMPI) is an invaluable tool for organizations seeking to drive quantifiable improvements in systems and software engineering. SCAMPI appraisals can help those organizations identify the strengt...

 Software Quality Engineering Testing, Quality Assurance, and Quantifiable Improvement

The one resource needed to create reliable software This text offers a comprehensive and integrated approach to software quality engineering. By following the author's clear guidance, readers learn how to master the techniques to produce high-quality, re...

 CMMI Guidelines for Process Integration and Product Improvement

Many organizations use Capability Maturity Models® (CMMs®) to assess development and maintenance processes, implement improvements, and measure progress. Although consistent in purpose, these models differ in terminology and design, enough sometimes to ca...

  Interpreting the CMMI process A process improvement approach

Written by experienced process improvement professionals who have developed and implemented systems in organizations around the world, Interpreting the CMMI: A Process Improvement Approach provides you with specific techniques for performing process impro...

 Systematic process improvement using ISO 9001:2000 and CMMI

ISO 9001 is known throughout the world as the gold standard for quality management and process improvement, but quality assurance professionals have also discovered the power of CMMISM ? the latest process improvement model from the Software Engineering I...

 CMMI distilled A practical introduction to integrated process improvement

Capability Maturity Model IntegrationSM (CMMI) has rapidly become a preferred means of improving organizational processes in industry and government. Building on a decade of work with process improvement models, including the Capability Maturity Model (CM...