Spreading multimedia information for learning and enlightenment about software process improvement

Project Information

SMILE

Grant agreement ID: FP4_23973

Project closed

Start date 1 April 1997

End date 30 September 1998

Funded under

• Software Best Practice initiative within the framework of the specific research and technological development programme in the field of Information Technologies, 1994-1998

Total cost € 220 000,00

EU contribution € 220 000,00

Coordinated by

Norwegian Computing Centre
Norway

Objective

Software producing units are still facing problems in carrying out software development. Projects running over time and over budget, too many errors and not-sufficient quality are examples of the problems.

Software Process Improvement (SPI) is a promising new paradigm to be used to gain control over the problems. The perspective behind Software Process Improvement is that it pays to treat the entire software task as a process that can be controlled, measured, and improved.
However, only between 10% and 20% of European Companies are aware of SPI and how to assess the software task and take action in order to overcome the problems.

The objective of this dissemination action is to raise awareness of and disseminate basic knowledge on Software Process Improvement (SPI) and Software Quality. The expected result of the project will be:

More management attention to SPI
More organisations active in seeking information on SPI
More organisations starting an SPI programme

ACTIONS
The dissemination action used in the SMILE project is multimedia CD-ROM containing information on Software Process Improvement. The information will be:

tailored specifically to different management needs
interactive thereby letting the users seek information in an interactive way
in the form of lectures, case studies and interviews as well as literature reviews and links to relevant information sources

EXPECTED IMPACT AND EXPERIENCE
The expected impact and benefits to the target audience and the wider community will be:

increased SPI awareness
enhanced knowledge on how to seek information
insight into what actions one can take within an SPI programme

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.

• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › software › software development

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Programme(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

Topic(s)

• 1.29 - Dissemination actions

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

ACM - Preparatory, accompanying and support measures

Coordinator

Norwegian Computing Centre

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Gaustadalleen 23 ; 0314 Oslo ; Norway
• Total cost: No data