Objetivo In a highly competitive market scenario characterised by increased complexity and shorter life span of software products, rapidly changing requirements and growing expectations from customers, tighter schedules and budgets, the quality, cost and timeliness of software production are a major business concern, if not a survival requirement, for most developers. Improved software productivity, higher software product quality and reliability, and flexibility in response to changing customer requirements are key objectives that must be reached in order to achieve shorter product time to market, reduced costs and higher customer satisfaction.THE EXPERIMENTThe PARI experiment is intended to meet the above defined goals by improving the software development process through the introduction of a reuse-oriented project methodology. Software reuse is expected to lead to a sizeable reduction of coding and testing effort, thus allowing substantial savings of development time and cost, at the same time ensuring better product quality and greater flexibility towards variable or different customer requirements.Outstanding tasks of the Experiment are the revision of the software development life cycle, the definition of a reuse-oriented methodology and the implementation of a development support environment. A pilot project will then apply the new methodology in the development of a selected component of a distributed software application for telecommunication network quality management.PLLB has 200 employees, of which about 35 are in the Software Development Area. EXPECTED IMPACT AND EXPERIENCEIt is foreseen that the Experiment will positively impact on PLLB software development organisation and procedures both from an efficiency standpoint (shorter time to market, reduced project costs, easier compliance to different customer requirements) and with regard to process/product overall quality. The Experiment is also considered an educational opportunity for the whole PLLB software development staff, as well as an instrument to increase their motivation for continuous quality improvement. Ámbito científico natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware developmentsocial scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivitynatural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applications Programa(s) FP4-ESSI 2 - Software Best Practice initiative within the framework of the specific research and technological development programme in the field of Information Technologies, 1994-1998 Tema(s) 1.28 - Process Improvement Experiments Convocatoria de propuestas Data not available Régimen de financiación ACM - Preparatory, accompanying and support measures Coordinador Pllb Elettronica Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Piazza Cadorna 6 20123 Milano Italia Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos
