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Publications focusing on development process management and process improvement
Process Mapping, Process Improvement and Process Manage...
At last, a simple, well-written survey of process redesign that will help you transform your organization into a world-class competitor. Author Dan Madison explains the evolution of work management styles, from traditional to process-focused, and introduces the tools of process mapping, the roles and responsibilities of everyone in the organization, and ...
Business Process Improvement Workbook: Documentation, A...
This long-awaited companion and update to H. James Harrington's best-selling Business Process Improvement is a hands-on implementation guide. It focuses on upgrading information distribution paths to optimize the many processes with which they come in contact. Filled with lists, charts, and appendices, this workbook tells how to document a company's pro ...
Business Process Improvement: The Breakthrough Strategy...
It's one of the hot topics for the 1990s--how to apply quality improvement techniques originally developed for the manufacturing sector to service industries. How to Take the Lead in Business Process Management details how to do it, providing a step-by-step formula that helps companies improve quality and productivity in the support areas. Here in one c ...
Business Process Management: Practical Guidelines to Su...
Business Process Management: Practical Guidelines to Successful Implementations provides organizational leadership with an understanding of Business Process Management and its benefits to an organization. This book also gives Business Process Management practitioners a framework and a set of tools and techniques that provide a practical guide to success ...
CMM Implementation Guide: Choreographing Software Proce...
Kim Caputo - Explains to software engineering professionals how to implement the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model. Discusses how to get started, problems that are likely to be encountered, and solutions that have proved effective. Appendixes and the accompanying CD-ROM include a range of templates, sample documents, and present ...
A Guide to the Cmm
Kenneth M. Dymond - It is an easy-to-use handbook to help you interpret the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model for Sofware or the CMM -- the widely-used standard for implementing your software process of continuous improvement. The Guide has been highly recommended by those who use the CMM in their improvement efforts and by thos ...
CMMI(SM) Distilled
Dennis M. Ahern, Richard Turner, Aaron Clouse - This book is about a new way of approaching process improvement for engineering development. Process improvement is a generally well-understood and accepted means of achieving quality and productivity gains for software development, and the recognition of its importance for other engineering disciplines is ...
CMM in Practice
Pankaj Jalote - The Capability Maturity Model (CMM), managed by the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon U., is a widely adopted set of guidelines for software process improvement and assessment. In detailing the specifics for achieving the five levels of maturity within this framework, Jalote (computer science and engineering, Indian Inst ...
The Capability Maturity Model
Mark C. Paulk, Charles V. Weber, Bill Curtis, Marc C. Paulk - The first part of the book describes the evolution of the CMM (Capability Maturity Model), the concepts of software process maturity, the structure of the model, how to interpret and use it, and the case study of IBM Houston. The second part consists of the key practices of the CMM, which des ...
Comparing ISO 9000 Malcolm Baldrige and the Sei Cmm for...
Michael O. Tingey - A detailed guide to choosing the best quality management system for your organization. Choose the right software quality methodology, and make it work efficiently. Some organizations have established ISO 9000 quality certification or the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model (CMM) as requirements for doing busin ...
Software Process Improvement: Practical Guidelines for ...
Sami Zahran - cloudnine@cix.co.ukA Comprehensive Reference Book on the Software Process This book describes the components of an effective software process environment. It describes current models, standards and intiatives. It offers pragmatic approach that will help you move your software engineering environment from a fire-fighting culture to a contin ...
CMII for Process Infrastructure
by Vincent C GuessCMII is project management, configuration management and quality assurance integrated into one cohesive unit. The activities of configuration management include requirements management, change management, release management, data management, records management, document control and the library function. The configuration management seg ...
Mind Your Ps & Qs - How to achieve Quality through Proc...
An holistic, no-nonsense approach to achieving quality which reflects the author’s belief that “Process Improvement is 90% People and only 10% Process.”
The People Capability Maturity Model
Guidelines for Improving the Workforceby Bill Curtis, William E. Hefley, and Sally A. MillerEmploying the process maturity framework of the Software CMM, this book describes best practices for managing and developing and organization’s workforce. This book describes the People CMM and the key practices that comprise each of its maturity levels, and sho ...
CMII for Business Process Infrastructure
Vincent C. Guess has documented what the Institute of Configuration Management developed and has been teaching. To quote from the fly leaf: "CMII is project management, configuration management, and quality assurance integrated into one cohesive unit." The book is well written, easy to read and on the mark as far as how to effectively run a business. Th ...
Auditing the Risk Management Process
by K. H. Spencer Pickett Until recently, traditional risk management methodology was viewed as a series of benchmarks to be reviewed, checked off, and filed away for the following year. This laid-back system left many loopholes for corruption. Reckless trading, against the backdrop of the cutthroat competition of the 1990s into 2000 and beyond, forced ...
Software Process Improvement with CMM
Joseph Raynus - A practical, step-by-step approach for improving an organization's software development process, using the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model (CMM). Gives software project managers & administrators a practical understanding of software process improvement with CMM & how it can be implemented. DLC: Computer softwar ...