Objective
Due to the growing complexity of our product and the fact that we want to remain a reliable partner to our customers, we have to replace our up-to-now personal dependant and "heroic" software development process towards a personal independent, deterministic, documented, quality assured, measurable and controlled process. By the experiment we hope to show a way, how small companies can become reliable partners by producing good software with minimal effort. We will deliver hints, which practices might be most effective.
THE EXPERIMENT
The objectives described above shall be achieved in the following three steps:
A) Preparation of the experiment by modelling and introducing a deterministic software development process, supported by a scalable documentation system, escorted by a quality assurance function and controlled by objective measurements.
B) Application of the new development process over the first phases of the chosen baseline project (Modelling of Complex Dynamic Systems for Model Based Diagnosis).
C) Continuous improvement of the development process by evaluating the results of step B) and the in parallel ongoing baseline project.
A BOOTSTRAP assessment by external assessors will finish the experiment and deliver objective results of the gained improvement and also a comparison to other companies (bench marking).
Our company is rather small (about 10 employees) and the whole development staff (7 persons) is involved in the experiment.
EXPECTED IMPACT AND EXPERIENCE
We hope to be able to reduce labour, error and defect cost and to improve the productivity of our employees and the maintainability and extendibility of our product. If the experiment is successful, we will try to get the ISO certification and of course we will further improve our working processes.
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89518 Heidenheim/Brenz
Germany
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