Objective The overall goal of the PERFECT project is to assist industry in establishing measurement-based initiatives aimed at evolutionary improvement of software development processes relative to company-specific quality goals.Organisations committed to improve their capabilities and making use of PERFECT's results should be able to: - define and implement a software process improvement plan based on quantitative quality goals - improve the organisation's processes by feedback from development projects - forecast quality problems based on experiences in previous projects - reduce the number of defects in products by process enhancement - package process technology for future use in the organisation's processes. Projects committed to improve their capabilities should be able to use PERFECT's results to: - define quality goals in quantitative terms - plan, monitor and control the process according to the quantitative quality goals - continuously improve the process during the project. The technical objectives of the PERFECT project are to: - define a general process improvement which integrates project internal feedback loops and organisational feedback loops using measurement as a basis - define a common framework for expressing product, process and measurement characteristics of software development processes and integrating them for the purpose of quality improvement - package existing defect removing development processes (eg cleanroom) together with existing experiences in order to make them practical for the organisation. This includes the identification technologies that are adaptable to specific processes and that can be measured in order to improve their effect - define a decision support methodology for quantitative goal setting. This includes methods for evaluation of processes, return-on-investment models, quantitative goal setting, and making an improvement plan - define a measurement and evaluation mechanisms to support process monitoring and controlling of software development processes - use existing tools to support product and process control, namely process WEAVER, a tool supporting process management, and ADELE, a tool supporting process and product management. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware development Programme(s) FP3-ESPRIT 3 - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of information technologies, 1990-1994 Topic(s) Data not available Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme Data not available Coordinator Cap Gemini Innovation Address 86/90 rue thiers 92513 Boulogne-billancourt France See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Daimler-Benz AG Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Epplestraße 225 70567 Stuttgart See on map QUALITY LABORATORIES SWEDEN AB Sweden EU contribution € 0,00 Address Ideon research park 223 70 Lund See on map ROBERT BOSCH GMBH Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Robert-bosch-platz 1 70839 Gerlingen See on map SIEMENS AS Norway EU contribution € 0,00 Address Oestre akers vei, 90, 10 veitvet Oslo See on map TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET KAISERSLAUTERN Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Erwin schroedinger strasse 46 67663 Kaiserslautern See on map Université de Grenoble I (Université Joseph Fourier) France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 385 avenue de la bibliothèque 38041 Grenoble See on map