Objective
Software Innovation is a software company that bases it's business on sales of it's two "off-the-shelf" products, SalesMaker and ProArc, and on development of customer specific solutions. Both products are targeted at the high-end market, SalesMaker mainly at large sales-organisations and ProArc mainly at document management in the offshore business. The company has experienced a rapid growth the last three years. Larger projects and larger project teams have been needed to meet the customers demand. This rapid growth has created a new environment, in which communication between development teams have been reduced and reuse is incorporated on an opportunistic level only.
The purpose of this PIE is to achieve measurable improvements in the company's development process, through developing mechanisms that allow us to build reusable components and modules on a company wide basis. The goal is to arrive at increased quality, flexibility and productivity through both organised reuse and object oriented, component based system development.
THE EXPERIMENT
The experiment is to change the existing development process to a well-defined component-based development process with emphasis on reusable components. An object-oriented system development method for client/server systems will be selected. The project management model will be adopted to incorporate reuse activities, resources and documentation, enabling the project managers of the two products to plan and track the baseline project. Metrics will be selected and then used to evaluate both the quality and the reusability of components. The improved development process will be applied to our baseline project, the development of new Win32 based versions of our two products. Software Innovation has 82 employees of which 50 are working with system development. The baseline project is planned to allocate 12-16 persons over a 1.5 year period.
EXPECTED IMPACT AND EXPERIENCE
An increased reuse maturity level for the whole organisation is expected to be the major benefit of the experiment. Improvements in the software engineering process will lead to better quality. The flexible component based infrastructure will make it easier to adapt new technologies and make us competitive in the rapidly changing software industry. From the commercial point of view, this will form the basis for an increased competitiveness on the existing market and on the evolving international market.
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N-0212 Oslo
Norway