Objectif The four real-scale experiments will be carried out by four different Thomson Business Units. Each business unit has a main business objective that can be satisfied by the adoption of software reuse technology: Cost reduction, time-to-market improvement, software reliability improvement, software flexibility and robustnessThe PIE experiments the reuse strategy on four different domains in conjunction with the current practices with a view to follow the experiment with implementation of this reuse strategy within all other domains of the organisation.There are two levels for the objectives: at the corporate level, to produce a validated corporate process model and to increases the average reuse rate, at the business unit level, the objectives are directly linked to the business objectives.These experiments are certainly strong by the position it gives business, market, product and economical assessment with respect to pure technical software improvement technologies. The world-wide competition experienced by European companies in the software is becoming stronger and stronger. Software reuse is becoming a strategic issue to improve competitiveness of the European software industry. The ROADS experiment will help to decrease the main risk of a reuse adoption process that can be summarised by "pay first and get return on investment later".THE EXPERIMENTThere are two levels for the experiment:- at the Corporate level: to tailor and apply generic existing reuse models, methodology, processes and tools (Software Productivity Consortium, Reboot) within Thomson-CSF to produce a corporate process model for Reuse.- at the Thomson business unit level: four mini-experiments to apply this Thomson corporate process model according to local business unit needs. Each mini-experiment is based upon a relevant baseline project.EXPECTED IMPACT AND EXPERIENCEOne of the main expected impact is to institutionalise the software reuse an to integrate it in the software standard process. This experiment is intended to improve the competitiveness of Thomson-CSF in the domain of software engineering and project/program management. Customers are today very sensitive to the capacity of industry to control developments and associated risks in term of quality, time to market, cost reduction, flexibility and robustness. As a result of improving software process maturity, Thomson-CSF will be capable of managing even larger and more complex software developments for which proved functionality. It will also open up the possibilities of new markets for the reusable software. Champ scientifique natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware developmentsocial scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivity 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 Thème(s) 1.28 - Process Improvement Experiments Appel à propositions Data not available Régime de financement ACM - Preparatory, accompanying and support measures Coordinateur Thomson Csf Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse Boulevard Haussmann 173 75 008 Paris France Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée
