Objective
Socrate Sistemi is a software provider for the automation of fashion and sportswear stores. Socrate Sistemi wants to become an Italian leader in this area, as well as to enlarge its market to other European countries (especially in the south of the France). The strategy chosen to face the growing competition in the field has been the gradual improvement of the development process with an enhancement of its productivity and of the quality of the products as perceived by the customers. The commercial objectives of the project are a consolidation of the market share in Italy by means of the reduction of costs and resource needed for the production of new application and the customisation of existing ones and a higher level of customer satisfaction thanks to the release of higher quality products. The same experiment can be replicated into the numberless small and medium sized enterprises in Europe working at the lowest level of maturity: they all need a defined starting point for improving their software process, and the measurement activities outlined by this PIE can be a good solution.
THE EXPERIMENT
The ASPIDE project is the application of the first Personal Software Process (PSP) steps (PSP0 and PSP0.1) to the employees of Socrate Sistemi S.a.S. From a technical point of view, the introduction of PSP0 and PSP0.1 into the software development process means the definition of time, defect and size measurement in order to define a better strategy for time and resource management and a baseline for future planning. The chosen baseline project is the complete re-engineering of the main Socrate Sistemi product, Arianna, a system for the administration of fashion, sportswear and in general clothing stores with the possibility of managing different points of sales in a distributed network, to integrate heterogeneous physical devices such as portable optical bar-code readers in a unique environment, to perform statistical analysis on the sales. The importance of this project is so high for Socrate Sistemi that most developers (6 men) will work on it for a year.
EXPECTED IMPACT AND EXPERIENCE
The organised application of PSP to most developers of a small enterprise is expected to have impact on the productivity and product quality of the whole company. For the short term, the first two steps (PSP0 and PSP0.1) are addressed: they respectively adds time and defects measurements (PSP0) and coding standards and size measurements(PSP0.1) to the development process. The completion of these two first stages in the improvement are the essential foundations for the following actions, dealing first with planning and then with quality.
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