Towards a Manifesto for Software Process Education, Training and Professionalism

Johansen, Jørn; Colomo‐Palacios, Ricardo; O’Connor, Rory V.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-38980-6_8

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“…In the field of undergraduate degree programs, according to the Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Software Engineering, software process is one of the 10 knowledge areas of the curriculum (Johansen et al, 2016). Although the coverage of software process education is established in curriculum initiatives, increasing its coverage in educational settings is still challenging.…”

Section: Iso/iec 29110 In Universities and Collegesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Evolution of the ISO/IEC 29110 Set of Standards and Guides

O’Connor

Laporte

2017

International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach

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While the quality of products is a competitive advantage for very small software development organizations, the usage of Software and Systems Engineering standards amongst such very small organizations is extremely low. A key factor in the literature explaining this lack of quality standards adoption is the perception by small and very small organizations that such standards have been developed for large multi-national companies and not with small and very small organizations in mind. The ISO/IEC 29110 standard is unique amongst software and systems engineering standards, in that the working group (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 WG 24) mandated to develop a new standard approached industry to conduct a needs assessment and gather actual requirements for a new standard as part of the standards development process. This paper presents a historical perspective behind the development of the ISO/IEC 29110 systems and software engineering standard and its constituent components, including the rationale behind its development and the innovative design of implementation guides to assist very small companies in adopting the standards. Further this paper will present an overview of the various parts of the ISO/IEC 29110 family and briefly present the plans for the future evolution of this series of standards.

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Section: Iso/iec 29110 In Universities and Collegesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Evolution of the ISO/IEC 29110 Set of Standards and Guides

O’Connor

Laporte

2017

International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach

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“…VSEs can find the efforts or benefit from best practices and performance indicators that the authors of the standard have found so far in the ISO/IEC 29110 (Johansen, Colomo-Palacios, & O'Connor, 2016). Moreover, there is under way an experience factory (Ribaud et al, 2011;Larrucea et al, 2016) that will help VSEs start SPI initiatives.…”

Section: Education and Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Getting the Best out of People in Small Software Companies

Sánchez‐Gordón

2017

International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach

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Managers of software small companies struggle to manage their software process. Therefore, for them realizing and understanding the impact of human factors on software process is even more challenging. Although human factors have been proved to have impact on software process, unfortunately they have been overlooked altogether. This paper proposes a holistic view of human factors on software process in VSE, focusing on the concerns and perceived shortcomings present. In order to identify and compare the human factors, the author carried out a systematic comparison of human factors. As a result, this study identifies the connection between software process defined in ISO/IEC 29110 and human factors given in ISO 10018 and its pertinence. In light of that, the author outlines first steps towards enhanced implementation of ISO/IEC 29110 standard based on ISO 10018.

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“…Software process education is one of the most important pillars in the EuroSPI community, and although there are some drawbacks detected in the literature, this is an open topic for the discipline. Not in vain, recently, a set of members of the community built the blocks for a Manifesto for Software Process Education, Training, and Professionalism that will be issued by the end of 2016. As a result of this interest, there are several initiatives in the community on SPI education in aspects like applying process appraisals at a university and many previous reports on certification efforts, eg, the works of Johansen et al, De man, and Korsaa …”

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confidence: 99%