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Dewayne Perry and Wilhelm Schäfer Short Communications: Editorial . . . . 1--1 Watts S. Humphrey Short Communications: Letter . . . . . . 3--4 Christian Steinmann and Hans Stienen SynQuest --- Tool Support for Software Self-Assessments . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--12 Ashok Dandekar and Dewayne E. Perry Barriers to Effective Process Architecture --- An Experience Report 13--19 Mike Konrad and Mary Beth Chrissis and Jack Ferguson and Suzanne Garcia and Bill Hefley and Dave Kitson and Mark Paulk Capability Maturity Modeling$^{SM}$ at the SEI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--34 Raghu Singh International Standard ISO/IEC 12207 Software Life Cycle Processes . . . . . 35--50 Lawrence G. Jones and Linda M. Northrop The Establishing Phase: Planning for Successful Improvement . . . . . . . . . 51--53 Sergio Bandinelli Report on the Workshop of Software process Environment Architecture . . . . 54--72 Lionel Briand and Khaled El Emam Software Engineering R&D group at CRIM 73--74
Dewayne Perry and Wilhelm Schäfer Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--81 Dr Nils Tomes International Quality: Software Process Improvement Approaches in Japan and the UK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--95 Ilkka Tervonen and Harri Oinas-Kukkonen Reorganizing the Inspection Process: problems encountered and resolved . . . 97--110 Subhash Chavan The Year 2000 Date Conversion Process 111--122 Khaled El Emam and Dennis R. Goldenson An Empirical Evaluation of the Prospective International SPICE Standard 123--148 Lawrence G. Jones and Linda M. Northrop and James D. Hart News: Software Engineering Institute . . 149--152 Prof. Dr. Dieter Rombach News: New Institute for Applied Software Engineering Research . . . . . . . . . . 152--155 Khaled El Emam and Barry Shostak and Nazim H. Madhavji News: Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montreal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--158
Dewayne Perry and Wilhelm Schäfer Short Communications: Editorial . . . . 163--163 Mark C. Paulk Editorial: Guest Editorial for the Special Issue of Papers from the 29th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--166 Ken W. Collier and James S. Collofello A Design-based Model for the Reduction of Software Cycle Time . . . . . . . . . 167--179 Mark d'Inverno and G. R. Ribeiro Justo and Paul Howells A Formal Framework For Specifying Design Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--196 Dirk Stelzer and Werner Mellis and Georg Herzwurm Software Process Improvement via ISO 9000? Results of Two Surveys among European Software Houses . . . . . . . . 197--210 Takeshige Miyoshi Early Experience with Software Process Assessment using SPICE Framework at Software Research Associates, Inc. . . . 211--235
Dewayne Perry and Wilhelm Shäfer Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--237 Howard C. Nelson and Tom Nute and David J. Rodjak Applying the spiral model: a case study in small project management . . . . . . 239--251 Lionel C. Briand and Christiane M. Differding and H. Dieter Rombach Practical guidelines for measurement-based process improvement 253--280 Martyn A. Ould CMM and ISO 9001 . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--289 Khaled El Emam and Lionel Briand and Robert Smith Assessor agreement in rating SPICE processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--306 Carlo Montangero News: Report on the Fifth European Workshop on Software Process Technology 307--311 Sergio Bandinelli and Amor Domínguez News: European Software Institute . . . 311--312
Dewayne Perry and Wilhelm Schäfer Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 Helen E. Thomson and Pam Mayhew Approaches to software process improvement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--17 Pete Sawyer and Ian Sommerville and Stephen Viller Requirements process improvement through the phased introduction of good practice 19--34 V. A. Makris and K. C. Thrampoulidis Introducing the object-oriented paradigm in a medium size software development company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--46 Suzanne M. Garcia Evolving improvement paradigms: capability maturity models and ISO/IEC 15504 (PDTR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--58 Khaled El Emam and Pierfrancesco Fusaro News: Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering . . . 59--61 Izaskun Doiz News: ESI news . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--63
Dewayne Perry and Wilhelm Schäfer Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--69 Even \Aaby Larsen and Karlheinz Kautz Quality assurance and software process improvement in Norway . . . . . . . . . 71--86 Ashok Dandekar and Dewayne E. Perry and Lawrence G. Votta Studies in process simplification . . . 87--104 Jim Arlow and Sergio Bandinelli and Wolfgang Emmerich and Luigi Lavazza A fine-grained process modelling experiment at British Airways . . . . . 105--131 Martin Verlage News: Experience with software process modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--136
Dewayne Perry and Wilhelm Schäfer Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--139 Jens H. Jahnke and Wilhelm Schäfer and Albert Zündorf An experiment in building a lightweight process-centred environment supporting team software processes . . . . . . . . 141--153 John Holt Software metrics --- real world experiences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--163 Tapani Kilpi Product management challenge to software change process: preliminary results from three SMEs experiment . . . . . . . . . 165--175 Jean-Martin Simon and Khaled El Emam and Sonia Rousseau and Eric Jacquet and Frederic Babey The reliability of ISO/IEC PDTR 15504 assessments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--188 Ana Andrés News: European Software Institute . . . 189--190 Isabella Wieczorek News: On the establishment of successful measurement programs in industry . . . . 191--194
Dewayne Perry and Wilhelm Schäfer Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--199 Peter Middleton Managing software quality by standardization . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--212 Robin Hunter and Gordon Robinson and Ian Woodman Tool support for software process assessment and improvement . . . . . . . 213--223 Pasi Vakaslahti Process improvement frameworks --- a small case study with People Capability Maturity Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--234 Horst Lichter and Gerhard Riedinger Improving software quality by static program analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--241 Giuseppe Satriani News: ESI news: a European software best practice repository . . . . . . . . . . 243--245 Lionel Briand and John Daly and Juergen Wuest News: Empirical research in object-oriented quality . . . . . . . . 247--251
Dewayne Perry and Wilhelm Schäfer Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 Mikael Lindvall Monitoring and measuring the change-prediction process at different granularity levels: an empirical study 3--10 K. Thorwart The AMETIST process improvement experiment: towards efficient team development in small companies . . . . . 11--18 Reiner Dumke Guest Editor Introduction: Software Measurement in Theory and Practice . . . 19--19 Christof Ebert The quest for technical controlling . . 21--31 Erik Foltin and Reiner R. Dumke Aspects of software metrics database design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--42 Harry M. Sneed Measuring reusability of legacy software systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--48
Dewayne Perry and Wilhelm Schäfer Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--53 Frank Niessink and Hans Van Vliet Towards mature IT services . . . . . . . 55--71 Tim Kasse and Patricia A. Mcquaid Entry strategies into the process improvement initiative . . . . . . . . . 73--88 Frank Bomarius and Klaus-Dieter Althoff and Wolfgang Müller News Section: Knowledge management for learning software organizations . . . . 89--93
Dewayne Perry and Wilhelm Schäfer Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99 Gianpaolo Cugola and Carlo Ghezzi Software processes: a retrospective and a path to the future . . . . . . . . . . 101--123 Gregory Alan Bolcer and Richard N. Taylor Advanced workflow management technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--171 Antony Powell and Duncan Brown A practical strategy for industrial reuse improvement . . . . . . . . . . . 173--182
Anonymous Editorials: Introduction to Special Issue on `Organizational Change in Software Process Improvement' . . . . . 185--185 Claude Y. Laporte and Sylvie Trudel Addressing the people issues of process improvement activities at Oerlikon Aerospace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--198 Deependra Moitra Managing change for software process improvement initiatives: a practical experience-based approach . . . . . . . 199--207 Karlheinz Kautz Software process improvement in very small enterprises: does it pay off? . . 209--226 Dirk Stelzer and Werner Mellis Success factors of organizational change in software process improvement . . . . 227--250
Dewayne Perry and Wilhelm Schäfer and Colin Tully Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 Juan Ares and Rafael García and Natalia Juristo and Marta López and Ana M. Moreno A more rigorous and comprehensive approach to software process assessment 3--30 Toshihiro Komiyama and Toshihiko Sunazuka and Shinji Koyama Software process assessment and improvement in NEC --- current status and future direction . . . . . . . . . . 31--43 Romana Vajde Horvat and Ivan Rozman and József Györkös Managing the complexity of SPI in small companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--54 Christophe Debou and Annie Kuntzmann-Combelles Linking software process improvement to business strategies: experiences from industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--64 Timo Kaltio and Atte Kinnula Deploying the defined SW process . . . . 65--83
D. Raffo and W. Scacchi Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--89 B. W. Chatters and M. M. Lehman and J. F. Ramil and P. Wernick Modelling a software evolution process: a long-term case study . . . . . . . . . 91--102 Alan M. Christie and Mary Jo Staley Organizational and social simulation of a software requirements development process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--110 Volker Gruhn Software process landscaping . . . . . . 111--120 Peter Henderson and Yvonne Howard Simulating a process strategy for large scale software development using systems dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--131 Ray Madachy and Denton Tarbet Case studies in software process modeling with system dynamics . . . . . 133--146 Robert H. Martin and David Raffo A model of the software development process using both continuous and discrete models . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--157 David Raffo and Warren Harrison and Joseph Vandeville Coordinating models and metrics to manage software projects . . . . . . . . 159--168 Stephen T. Roehling and James S. Collofello and Brian G. Hermann and Dwight E. Smith-Daniels System dynamics modeling applied to software outsourcing decision support 169--182 Walt Scacchi Understanding software process redesign using modeling, analysis and simulation 183--195 Friedrich Stallinger Software process simulation to support ISO/IEC 15504 based software process improvement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--209
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--211 Miklós Biró and János Ivanyos and Richard Messnarz Pioneering process improvement experiment in hungary . . . . . . . . . 213--229 Winfried Russwurm and Ludger Meyer Integrated evaluation procedure for software/hardware system development processes based on the Software Capability Maturity Model (CMM) . . . . 231--241 J. Batista and A. Dias De Figueiredo SPI in a very small team: a case with CMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--250 Maria H. Penedo An active Web-based virtual room for small team collaboration . . . . . . . . 251--261
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 F. Cattaneo and A. Fuggetta and D. Sciuto Pursuing coherence in software process assessment and improvement . . . . . . . 3--22 Peter Isacsson and Gunnar Pedersen and Stig Bang Accelerating CMM-based improvement programs: the accelerator model and method with experiences . . . . . . . . 23--34 Mathias Weske and Thomas Goesmann and Roland Holten and Rüdiger Striemer Analysing, modelling and improving workflow application development processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--46 O. Benediktsson and R. B. Hunter and A. D. McGettrick Processes for software in safety critical systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--62
Dewayne Perry and Wilhelm Schäfer and Colin Tully Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--65 Hareton K. N. Leung and Terence C. F. Yuen A process framework for small projects 67--83 Kurt Schneider and Thilo Schwinn Maturing experience base concepts at DaimlerChrysler . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--96 Paolo Donzelli and Giuseppe Iazeolla A hybrid software process simulation model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--109 Ho-Won Jung Rating the process attribute utilizing AHP in SPICE-based process assessments 111--122
Dewayne Perry and Wilhelm Schäfer and Colin Tully Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--123 Josée Tassé and Nazim H. Madhavji View-based process elicitation: a user's perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--139 Scott Henninger Turning development standards into repositories of experiences . . . . . . 141--155 Ita Richardson Software process matrix: a small company SPI model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--165
Dewayne Perry and Wilhelm Schäfer and Colin Tully Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--167 Austen Rainer and Tracy Hall An analysis of some `core studies' of software process improvement . . . . . . 169--187 Onur Demirors and Elif Demirors and Ayca Tarhan Managing instructional software acquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--203 Ho-Won Jung and Robin Hunter and Dennis R. Goldenson and Khaled El-Emam Findings from Phase 2 of the SPICE trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--242
Dewayne Perry and Wilhelm Schäfer and Colin Tully Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 Tracy Hall and Austen Rainer and Nathan Baddoo Implementing software process improvement: an empirical study . . . . 3--15 Nathan Baddoo and Tracy Hall Practitioner roles in software process improvement: an analysis using grid technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--31 Jarmo J. Ahonen and Marko Forsell and Sanna-Kaisa Taskinen A modest but practical software process modeling technique for software process improvement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--44
Dewayne Perry and Wilhelm Schäfer and Colin Tully Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--45 Bridget Meehan and Ita Richardson Identification of Software Process Knowledge Management . . . . . . . . . . 47--55 G. A. Bell and M. A. Cooper and S. Qureshi The Holon Framework and Software Process Improvement: A Radiotherapy Project Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--70 Darren Dalcher and Colin Tully Learning from Failures . . . . . . . . . 71--89
Walt Scacchi and David Raffo Editorials: Special issue on software process simulation and modeling . . . . 91--93 Juan F. Ramil and Neil Smith Qualitative simulation of models of software evolution . . . . . . . . . . . 95--112 Paul Wernick and Tracy Hall Simulating global software evolution processes by combining simple models: an initial study . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--126 Frank Padberg A discrete simulation model for assessing software project scheduling policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--139 Eliza Chiang and Tim Menzies Simulations for very early lifecycle quality evaluations . . . . . . . . . . 141--159 Márcio De Oliveira Barros and Cláudia Maria Lima Werner and Guilherme Horta Travassos A system dynamics metamodel for software process modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--172 I. P. Antoniades and I. Stamelos and L. Angelis and G. L. Bleris A novel simulation model for the development process of open source software projects . . . . . . . . . . . 173--188 Dietmar Pfahl and Günther Ruhe IMMoS: a methodology for integrated measurement, modelling and simulation 189--210
Darren Dalcher and David Raffo Editorials: Introduction to software process: improvement and practice, volume 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Darren Dalcher and David Raffo Editorials: Introduction to issue 8:1: software process improvement standards 3--4 Ho-Won Jung Standards Sections: Evaluating the internal consistency of ISO/IEC TR 15504 process capability measures . . . . . . 5--26 Terence P. Rout ISO/IEC 15504 --- Evolution to an international standard . . . . . . . . . 27--40 B. Henderson-Sellers and J. Bohling and T. Rout Creating the OOSPICE model architecture --- a case of reuse . . . . . . . . . . 41--49 A. J. Walker Level 5 process capability achievement: a case study from Software Engineering Research Management . . . . . . . . . . 51--62
Rick Kazman and Len Bass Editorials: Special issue on bridging the process and practice gaps between software engineering and human--computer interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--65 Eelke Folmer and Jilles van Gurp and Jan Bosch A framework for capturing the relationship between usability and software architecture . . . . . . . . . 67--87 Jean Scholtz and Emile Morse Using consumer demands to bridge the gap between software engineering and usability engineering . . . . . . . . . 89--98 Torkil Clemmensen and Jacob Nòrbjerg Separation in theory, coordination in practice --- teaching HCI and SE . . . . 99--110 Bengt Göransson and Jan Gulliksen and Inger Boivie The usability design process --- integrating user-centered systems design in the software development process . . 111--131
Darren Dalcher and David Raffo Editorials: Introduction to issue 8:3: software process improvement is alive and well . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--134 Bernard Moreau and Claire Lassudrie and Bertrand Nicolas and Odile l'Homme and Cécile d'Anterroches and Gilbert Le Gall Software quality improvement in France telecom research center . . . . . . . . 135--144 Hossein Saiedian Practical recommendations to minimize software capability evaluation risks . . 145--156 K. Daily and D. Dresner Towards software excellence --- informal self-assessment for software developers 157--168 Ho-Won Jung and Robin Hunter Evaluating the SPICE rating scale with regard to the internal consistency of capability measures . . . . . . . . . . 169--178
Daniela Damian Editorials: Global software development: growing opportunities, ongoing challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--182 Maria Paasivaara and Casper Lassenius Collaboration practices in global inter-organizational software development projects . . . . . . . . . . 183--199 Daniel M. German The GNOME project: a case study of open source, global software development . . 201--215 Filippo Lanubile and Teresa Mallardo and Fabio Calefato Tool support for geographically dispersed inspection teams . . . . . . . 217--231 Päivi Ovaska and Matti Rossi and Pentti Marttiin Architecture as a coordination tool in multi-site software development . . . . 233--247 J. Alberto Espinosa and Erran Carmel The impact of time separation on coordination in global software teams: a conceptual foundation . . . . . . . . . 249--266 Rafael Prikladnicki and Jorge Luis Nicolas Audy and Roberto Evaristo Global software development in practice lessons learned . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--281
Darren Dalcher and David Raffo Editorials: Introduction to issue 9 : 1: software process improvement for all . . 1--2 Claire Lassudrie and Gina Gull\`a-Menez An experience in using risk management in a software process improvement programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--12 Ann Cass and Christian Völcker and Rafik Ouared and Alec Dorling and Lothar Winzer and Juan María Carranza SPICE for SPACE trials, risk analysis, and process improvement . . . . . . . . 13--21 Angela Tuffley and Bill Grove and Gary McNair SPICE for small organisations . . . . . 23--31 Giuliano Antoniol and Sara Gradara and Gabriele Venturi Methodological issues in a CMM Level 4 implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--50
Paul Wernick and Walt Scacchi Editorials: Special Issue on ProSim 2003, The 4th International Workshop on Software Process Simulation and Modeling, Portland, OR, May 2003 . . . . 51--53 João W. Cangussu A software test process stochastic control model based on CMM characterization . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--66 Tobias Häberlein Common structures in system dynamics models of software acquisition projects 67--80 Mercedes Ruiz and Isabel Ramos and Miguel Toro An integrated framework for simulation-based software process improvement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--93 Alejandro Fernández and Badie Garzaldeen and Ines Grützner and Jürgen Münch Guided support for collaborative modeling, enactment and simulation of software development processes . . . . . 95--106 Wayne W. Wakeland and Robert H. Martin and David Raffo Using design of experiments, sensitivity analysis, and hybrid simulation to evaluate changes to a software development process: a case study . . . 107--119
Darren Dalcher Editorials: Incremental capability improvement: the new weapon in addressing the all-pervasive complexity 121--122 Valentine Casey and Ita Richardson A practical application of the IDEAL model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--132 Andreas S. Andreou Introducing a process framework for implementing models of large-scale real-world systems in software . . . . . 133--155 James D. Arthur and Markus K. Gröner Verification and validation of operational software: a process and methodology critique . . . . . . . . . . 157--171 Bengee Lee and James Miller Multi-project software engineering analysis using systems thinking . . . . 173--214
Darren Dalcher Editorials: Capability improvement: supporting developers . . . . . . . . . 215--216 Kevin Hyde and David Wilson Intangible benefits of CMM-based software process improvement . . . . . . 217--228 Sami Beydeda and Volker Gruhn Dynamic evolution of software processes to evolve software systems during their development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--238 Lerina Aversano and Andrea De Lucia and Matteo Gaeta and Pierluigi Ritrovato and Silvio Stefanucci and Maria Luisa Villani Managing coordination and cooperation in distributed software processes: the GENESIS environment . . . . . . . . . . 239--263 Andrew Brooks Results of rapid bottom-up software process modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--278
Darren Dalcher and David Raffo Editorials: Introduction to software process: improvement and practice, volume 10 looking forward to the future: expanding the scope of the process area 1--2 Jan Bosch Guest Editorials: Software variability: process and management . . . . . . . . . 3--5 Krzysztof Czarnecki and Simon Helsen and Ulrich Eisenecker Formalizing cardinality-based feature models and their specialization . . . . 7--29 Muthu Ramachandran and Pat Allen Commonality and variability analysis in industrial practice for product line improvement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--40 Mikko Raatikainen and Timo Soininen and Tomi Männistö and Antti Mattila Characterizing configurable software product families and their derivation 41--60 Klaus Schmid and Stefan Biffl Systematic management of software product lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--76 Ioana \cSora and Vladimir Cre\ctu and Pierre Verbaeten and Yolande Berbers Managing variability of self-customizable systems through composable components . . . . . . . . . 77--95 Professor Oddur Benediktsson Book Review: \booktitleISO 9001:2000: Achieving compliance and continuous improvement in software development companies. Vivek Nanda, ASQ Quality Press, 2003. No. of pages: xv + 271. ISBN 0-87389-594-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 97--98
Darren Dalcher Editorials: Software process: lessons and reflections . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--100 Rob van Ommering and David Weiss Editorials: Special issue on SPLC 2004, The 3rd Software Product Line Conference, Boston, MA, August--September 2004 . . . . . . . . . 101--102 Claudia Fritsch and Burkhardt Renz Four mechanisms for adaptable systems: a meta-level approach to building a software product line . . . . . . . . . 103--124 Jan Bosch Staged adoption of software product families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--142 Krzysztof Czarnecki and Simon Helsen and Ulrich Eisenecker Staged configuration through specialization and multilevel configuration of feature models . . . . 143--169 Pierre America and Dieter Hammer and Mugurel T. Ionita and Henk Obbink and Eelco Rommes Scenario-based decision making for architectural variability in product families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--187 F. G. Wilkie and D. McFall and F. McCaffery An evaluation of CMMI process areas for small- to medium-sized software development organisations . . . . . . . 189--201 Kevin C. Desouza and Torgeir Dingsòyr and Yukika Awazu Experiences with conducting project postmortems: reports versus stories . . 203--215 Tran Dan Thu and Tran Hanh Nhi and Dong Thi Bich Thuy and Bernard Coulette and Xavier Cregut Topological properties for characterizing well-formedness of process components . . . . . . . . . . . 217--247
Darren Dalcher Editorials: Never alone: process work and supporting disciplines . . . . . . . 249--249 Dietmar Pfahl and Ioana Rus Guest Editorials: Special issue on ProSim 2004, The 5th International Workshop on Software Process Simulation and Modeling, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--253 Chris Jensen and Walt Scacchi Process modeling across the Web information infrastructure . . . . . . . 255--272 Alexis Ocampo and Fabio Bella and Jürgen Münch Software process commonality analysis 273--285 Neil Smith and Andrea Capiluppi and Juan F. Ramil A study of open source software evolution data using qualitative simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--300 Wayne Wakeland and Stephen Shervais and David Raffo Heuristic optimization as a V&V tool for software process simulation models . . . 301--309 Emily Oh Navarro and André van der Hoek Software process modeling for an educational software engineering simulation game . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--325 Thomas Birkhölzer and Christoph Dickmann and Jürgen Vaupel and Laura Dantas An interactive software management simulator based on the CMMI framework 327--340 Bendik Bygstad Managing the dynamics of mutual adaptation of technology and organisation in information systems development projects . . . . . . . . . . 341--353 Anonymous Correction: ``An integrated framework for simulation-based Software Process Improvement'', by Mercedes Ruiz, Isabel Ramos, Miguel Toro, \booktitleSoftware Process Improvement and Practice 2004; \bf 9:81--93 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--355
Darren Dalcher Editorials: What to improve next? selecting and prioritising in software process improvement . . . . . . . . . . 357--358 Gil Regev and Pnina Soffer and Ilia Bider Guest Editorials: Creating and maintaining the fit between business processes and support systems . . . . . 359--361 Selmin Nurcan and Marc-Henri Edme Intention-driven modeling for flexible workflow applications . . . . . . . . . 363--377 Pavel Balabko and Alain Wegmann and Alain Ruppen and Nicolas Clément Capturing design rationale with functional decomposition of roles in business processes modeling . . . . . . 379--392 Pnina Soffer Scope analysis: identifying the impact of changes in business process models 393--402 Tomas Andersson and Ilia Bider and Rogier Svensson Aligning people to business processes experience report . . . . . . . . . . . 403--413 Stewart Green and Martyn Ould A framework for classifying and evaluating process architecture methods 415--425 Lars Taxén A sociotechnical approach towards alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--439 Shivraj Kanungo and Ipininder S. Monga Prioritizing process change requests (PCRs) in software process improvement 441--453 Lasse Harjumaa A pattern approach to software inspection process improvement . . . . . 455--465
Darren Dalcher Editorials: Software process: the next level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Torgeir Dingsòyr Guest Editorials: Software process improvement in Europe: selected articles from EuroSPI 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . 3--5 Laura Lehtola and Marjo Kauppinen Suitability of requirements prioritization methods for market-driven software product development . . . . . . 7--19 Nils Brede Moe and Tore Dybå The use of an electronic process guide in a medium-sized software development company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--34 Joost Schalken and Sjaak Brinkkemper and Hans van Vliet A method to draw lessons from project postmortem databases . . . . . . . . . . 35--46 Lars-Ola Damm and Lars Lundberg and Claes Wohlin Faults-slip-through --- a concept for measuring the efficiency of the test process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--59 Darja \vSmite Global software development projects in one of the biggest companies in Latvia: is geographical distribution a problem? 61--76 Frank Padberg A study on optimal scheduling for software projects . . . . . . . . . . . 77--91
Darren Dalcher Editorials: Software Process: the key to success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--93 Walt Scacchi and Joseph Feller and Brian Fitzgerald and Scott Hissam and Karim Lakhani Guest Editorials: Understanding Free/Open Source Software Development Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--105 David Cruz and Thomas Wieland and Alexander Ziegler Evaluation criteria for free/open source software products based on project analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--122 Kevin Crowston and James Howison and Hala Annabi Information systems success in free and open source software development: theory and measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--148 David M. Nichols and Michael B. Twidale Usability processes in open source projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--162 Adam Porter and Cemal Yilmaz and Atif M. Memon and Arvind S. Krishna and Douglas C. Schmidt and Aniruddha Gokhale Techniques and processes for improving the quality and performance of open-source software . . . . . . . . . . 163--176 Katherine J. Stewart and Sanjay Gosain The moderating role of development stage in free/open source software project performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--191 Mahmood Niazi and David Wilson and Didar Zowghi Critical success factors for software process improvement implementation: an empirical study . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--211
Darren Dalcher Editorials: Research and practice can co-exist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--213 Miklós Biró and Richard Messnarz Guest Editorials: Special issue with selected industrial experience papers of EuroSPI$^2$ 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--218 Nathan Baddoo and Tracy Hall and Dorota Jagielska Software developer motivation in a high maturity company: a case study . . . . . 219--228 Stefan Biffl and Dietmar Winkler and Reinhard Höhn and Herbert Wetzel Software process improvement in Europe: potential of the new V-modell XT and research issues . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--238 Miklós Biró and Csilla Deák and János Ivanyos and Richard Messnarz From compliance to business success: improving outsourcing service controls by adopting external regulatory requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--249 Péter Fehér and András Gábor The role of Knowledge Management Supporters in software development companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--260 Javier García Guzmán and Román López-Cortijo García and Antonio de Amescua Seco and Gonzalo Cuevas Agustín Case Study: a practical approach for SPI in large Spanish companies . . . . . . . 261--268 Gerry Coleman and Martin McAnallen Managing the challenges of legacy systems using extreme programming . . . 269--275 Fergal McCaffery and Darja \vSmite and F. G. Wilkie and D. McFall A proposed way for European software industries to achieve growth within the global marketplace . . . . . . . . . . . 277--285 Richard Messnarz and Gearoid O'Suilleabhain and Ray Coughlan From process improvement to learning organisations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--294 Joseph Momoh and Günther Ruhe Release planning process improvement --- an industrial case study . . . . . . . . 295--307 Paolo Salvaneschi and Daniele Grasso and Maurizio Besurga The role of process improvement in IT departments: experiences and lessons learned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--317 Kerstin V. Siakas and Bo Balstrup Software outsourcing quality achieved by global virtual collaboration . . . . . . 319--328 Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim and Timo Varkoi and Clênio F. Salviano Standard based software process assessments in small companies . . . . . 329--335
Darren Dalcher Editorials: Working in a complex environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--337 Jürgen Münch and Dietmar Pfahl Guest Editorials: Special issue on ProSim 2005, The 6th international workshop on software process simulation and modeling, St. Louis, Missouri, USA May 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--343 Marco Melis and Ivana Turnu and Alessandra Cau and Giulio Concas Evaluating the impact of test-first programming and pair programming through software process simulation . . . . . . 345--360 Dan Houston An experience in facilitating process improvement with an integration problem reporting process simulation . . . . . . 361--371 KeungSik Choi and Doo-Hwan Bae and TagGon Kim An approach to a hybrid software process simulation using the DEVS formalism . . 373--383 Yu Chen and Gerald C. Gannod and James S. Collofello A software product line process simulator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--409 Márcio de O. Barros and Alexandre R. Dantas and Gustavo O. Veronese and Cláudia M. L. Werner Model-driven game development: experience and model enhancements in software project management education 411--421 Neil Smith and Andrea Capiluppi and Juan Fernández-Ramil Agent-based simulation of open source evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--434 Sebastian Kiebusch and Bogdan Franczyk and Andreas Speck An unadjusted size measurement of embedded software system families and its validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--446
Pär J. \Aagerfalk and Jolita Ralyté Guest Editorials: Situational Requirements Engineering Processes: reflecting on method engineering and requirements practice . . . . . . . . . 447--450 Chad Coulin and Didar Zowghi and Abd-El-Kader Sahraoui A situational method engineering approach to requirements elicitation workshops in the software development process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--464 Johan F. Hoorn and Mark E. Breuker and Evelien Kok Shifts in foci and priorities. Different relevance of requirements to changing goals yields conflicting prioritizations and is viewpoint-dependent . . . . . . . 465--485 Régine Laleau and Sylvie Vignes and Yves Ledru and Michel Lemoine and Didier Bert and Véronique Donzeau-Gouge and Catherine Dubois and Fabien Peureux Adopting a situational requirements engineering approach for the analysis of civil aviation security standards . . . 487--503 Toshihiko Tsumaki and Tetsuo Tamai Framework for matching requirements elicitation techniques to project characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--519 Inge van de Weerd and Sjaak Brinkkemper and Jurriaan Souer and Johan Versendaal A situational implementation method for Web-based content management system-applications: method engineering and validation in practice . . . . . . . 521--538 Mauri Leppänen Conceptual evaluation of methods for engineering situational ISD methods . . 539--555
Darren Dalcher Editorials: Supporting software development: enhancing productivity, management and control . . . . . . . . . 557--559 Mette Asmild and Joseph C. Paradi and Atin Kulkarni Using Data Envelopment Analysis in software development productivity measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--572 Xiaoqing (Frank) Liu and Yan Sun and Gautam Kane and Yuji Kyoya and Kunio Noguchi Business-oriented software process improvement based on CMM using QFD . . . 573--589 Muthu Ramachandran Automated improvement for component reuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591--599 James Miller and H. C. Yeoh COTS acquisition process: incorporating business factors into COTS vendor evaluation taxonomies . . . . . . . . . 601--626 Michael Meisinger and Andreas Rausch and Marc Sihling 4everedit --- Team-based Process Documentation Management . . . . . . . . 627--642
Darren Dalcher Editorials: Design for change: one step at a time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Stewart Green and Gil Regev and Pnina Soffer and Jelena Zdravkovic Guest Editorials: Business processes and support systems: design for flexibility 3--5 Rainer Schmidt Sercomp: a component oriented method for flexible design and support of interorganizational service processes 7--20 R. A. Snowdon and B. C. Warboys and R. M. Greenwood and C. P. Holland and P. J. Kawalek and D. R. Shaw On the architecture and form of flexible process support . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--34 Jorge Cardoso Complexity analysis of BPEL Web processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--49 Feriel Daoudi and Selmin Nurcan A benchmarking framework for methods to design flexible business processes . . . 51--63 Gil Regev and Ilia Bider and Alain Wegmann Defining business process flexibility with the help of invariants . . . . . . 65--79 Outi Salo and Pekka Abrahamsson An iterative improvement process for agile software development . . . . . . . 81--100 Armin Eberlein and Li Jiang Description of a process development methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--118
Professor Darren Dalcher Editorials: The Role of Perspective in Process Improvement . . . . . . . . . . 119--120 Juan J. Cuadrado-Gallego and Alain Abran Guest Editorials: Advances in measurements for software processes assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--123 Carina Andersson and Per Runeson A spiral process model for case studies on software quality monitoring --- method and metrics . . . . . . . . . . . 125--140 Antonia Bertolino and Eda Marchetti and Raffaela Mirandola Performance measures for supporting project manager decisions . . . . . . . 141--164 Seok-Won Lee and Robin A. Gandhi and Gail-Joon Ahn Certification process artifacts defined as measurable units for software assurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--189 Ricardo J. Rejas-Muslera and Juan J. Cuadrado-Gallego and Miguel-Angel Sicilia and Daniel Rodríguez SLA: a legal assurance process model for software engineering management . . . . 191--198 Alain Abran and Iphigénie Ndiaye and Pierre Bourque Evaluation of a black-box estimation tool: a case study . . . . . . . . . . . 199--218
Darren Dalcher Editorials: Agility and Software Teams: The Future of Software Process Improvement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--221 Watts S. Humphrey Software process improvement --- a personal view: How it started and where it is going . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--227 Renata Mendes de Araujo and Marcos R. S. Borges The role of collaborative support to promote participation and commitment in software development teams . . . . . . . 229--246 Levent Yilmaz and Jared Phillips The impact of turbulence on the effectiveness and efficiency of software development teams in small organizations 247--265 Ivan Aaen and Anna Börjesson and Lars Mathiassen SPI agility: How to navigate improvement projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--281 Alexia N. Bowers and Raghvinder S. Sangwan and Colin J. Neill Adoption of XP practices in the industry --- a survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--294 Josef Nedstam and Mark Staples Evolving strategies for software architecture and reuse . . . . . . . . . 295--309
Terence P. Rout Guest Editorials: Software process assessment and improvement: Selected papers from SPICE 2005 . . . . . . . . . 311--313 Antonio Coletta An industrial experience in assessing the capability of non-software processes using ISO/IEC 15504 . . . . . . . . . . 315--319 B. Di Renzo and M. Hillairet and M. Picard and A. Rifaut and C. Bernard and D. Hagen and P. Maar and D. Reinard Operational risk management in financial institutions: Process assessment in concordance with Basel II . . . . . . . 321--330 Timo Mäkinen and Timo Varkoi A harmonized design for process assessment indicators . . . . . . . . . 331--338 F. G. Wilkie and F. Mc Caffery and D. McFall and Neil Lester and Emmanuel Wilkinson A Low-overhead method for software process appraisal . . . . . . . . . . . 339--349 Marty Sanders and Ita Richardson Research into long-term improvements in small- to medium-sized organisations using SPICE as a framework for standards 351--359 Terence P. Rout and Angela Tuffley Harmonizing ISO/IEC 15504 and CMMI . . . 361--371
Paul Wernick Editorials: SPIP Special Issue on SPW/ProSim 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--375 Barry Boehm and Apurva Jain Developing a process framework using principles of value-based software engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--385 Mingshu Li TRISO-Model: A New Approach to Integrated Software Process Assessment and Improvement . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--398 Leon J. Osterweil What we learn from the study of ubiquitous processes . . . . . . . . . . 399--414 Jacky Estublier and Sergio Garcia Workflows and cooperative processes . . 415--427 Shaowen Qin Managing process change in software organizations: Experience and reflection 429--435 Junchao Xiao and Leon J. Osterweil and Lei Zhang and Alexander Wise and Qing Wang Applying Little-JIL to describe Process--Agent knowledge and support project planning in SoftPM . . . . . . . 437--448 Ye Yang and Barry Boehm Improving process decisions in COTS-based development via risk-based prioritization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--460 Raymond Madachy and Barry Boehm and Jo Ann Lane Assessing hybrid incremental processes for SISOS development . . . . . . . . . 461--473 Dr Dietmar Pfahl and Ahmed Al-Emran and Günther Ruhe A System Dynamics Simulation Model for Analyzing the Stability of Software Release Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--490 Siri-on Setamanit and Wayne Wakeland and David Raffo Using simulation to evaluate global software development task allocation strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--503
Darren Dalcher Editorials: Celebrating success . . . . 505--506 Miklós Biró and Richard Messnarz Guest Editorials: European industrial experiences in process improvement and innovation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--509 Nathan Baddoo and Tracy Hall and Ciaran O'Keeffe Using multi dimensional scaling to analyse software engineers' de-motivators for SPI . . . . . . . . . 511--522 Fabrizio Fabbrini and Mario Fusani and Giuseppe Lami and Edoardo Sivera and Edoardo Sivera A SPICE-based software supplier qualification mechanism in automotive industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--528 Jòrn Johansen and Jan Pries-Heje Success with improvement --- requires the right roles to be enacted --- in symbiosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--539 Petri Kettunen Extending Software Project Agility with New Product Development Enterprise Agility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541--548 Topi Haapio A framework for improving effort management in software projects . . . . 549--558 Juha Halminen and Risto Nevalainen Qualification of safety-critical systems in TVO nuclear power plants . . . . . . 559--567 Richard Messnarz and Damjan Ekert Assessment-based learning systems --- learning from best projects . . . . . . 569--577 Alexander Poth SPI of the requirements engineering process for embedded systems using SPICE 579--584 Erkki Savioja and Markku Tukiainen Measurement practices in financial software industry . . . . . . . . . . . 585--595 Kerstin V. Siakas and Errikos Siakas The agile professional culture: a source of agile quality . . . . . . . . . . . . 597--610
David Raffo and Dietmar Pfahl and Qing Wang Guest Editorials: Guest editors' introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3 Florian Deissenboeck and Markus Pizka Probabilistic Analysis of Process Economics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--17 Ahmed Al-Emran and Dietmar Pfahl and Günther Ruhe A method for re-planning of software releases using discrete-event simulation 19--33 Qing Wang and Lang Gou and Nan Jiang and Meiru Che and Ronghui Zhang and Yun Yang and Mingshu Li Estimating fixing effort and schedule based on defect injection distribution 35--50 Raymond J. Madachy Cost modeling of distributed team processes for global development and Software-Intensive Systems of Systems 51--61 David Raffo and Robert Ferguson and Siri-on Setamanit and Bhuricha Sethanandha Evaluating the impact of requirements analysis tools using simulation . . . . 63--73 Oktay Turetken and Onur Demirors Process modeling by process owners: a decentralized approach . . . . . . . . . 75--87 Weibing Chen and Jingyue Li and Jianqiang Ma and Reidar Conradi and Junzhong Ji and Chunnian Liu An empirical study on software development with open source components in the Chinese software industry . . . . 89--100 Merwan Mehta and David Anderson and David Raffo Providing value to customers in software development through lean principles . . 101--109
Rose Gamble and Grace A. Lewis Guest Editorial: Systems interoperability, integration, and composition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--112 Gerald Kotonya and John Hutchinson A component-based process for modelling and evolving legacy systems . . . . . . 113--125 Xabier Larrucea Method Engineering Approach for Interoperable Systems Development . . . 127--133 Grace A. Lewis and Edwin Morris and Soumya Simanta and Lutz Wrage Effects of service-oriented architecture on software development lifecycle activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--144 M. T. Gamble and R. F. Gamble Isolation in design reuse . . . . . . . 145--156 Abdallah Mohamed and Guenther Ruhe and Armin Eberlein Optimized mismatch resolution for COTS selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--169 Juan Pablo Carvallo and Xavier Franch and Carme Quer Supporting CMMI Level 2 SAM PA with Non-technical Features Catalogues . . . 171--182 Petri Kettunen and Maarit Laanti Regular Papers: Combining agile software projects and large-scale organizational agility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--193 Piotr Tomaszewski and Patrik Berander and Lars-Ola Damm Regular Papers: From Traditional to Streamline Development --- opportunities and challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--212
Pekka Abrahamsson and Jürgen Münch and Pasi Kuvaja Guest Editorials: Perspectives on Global Software Development: special issue on PROFES 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--215 Nils Brede Moe and Darja \vSmite Understanding a lack of trust in Global Software Teams: a multiple-case study 217--231 Jianqiang Ma and Jingyue Li and Weibing Chen and Reidar Conradi and Junzhong Ji and Chunnian Liu A state-of-the-practice study on communication and coordination between Chinese software suppliers and their global outsourcers . . . . . . . . . . . 233--247 Mahmood Niazi and Muhammad Ali Babar and Nolin Mark Katugampola Demotivators of software process improvement: an empirical investigation 249--264 Ahmed Al-Emran and Dietmar Pfahl Performing operational release planning, replanning and risk analysis using a system dynamics simulation model . . . . 265--279 Lech Madeyski Impact of pair programming on thoroughness and fault detection effectiveness of unit test suites . . . 281--295
Miklós Biró and Richard Messnarz Editorials: Process improvement lessons learnt in small and large organizations worldwide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--299 Ove Armbrust and Jan Ebell and Ulrike Hammerschall and Jürgen Münch and Daniela Thoma Experiences and results from tailoring and deploying a large process standard in a company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--309 Analia Irigoyen Ferreiro Ferreira and Gleison Santos and Roberta Cerqueira and Mariano Montoni and Ahilton Barreto and Ana Regina Rocha and Andrea O. S. Barreto and Reinaldo C. Silva Filho ROI of software process improvement at BL informática: SPIdex is really worth it 311--318 Mads Christiansen and Jòrn Johansen ImprovAbility\TM guidelines for low-maturity organizations . . . . . . . 319--325 Fergal Downey and Gerry Coleman Using SPI to achieve delivery objectives in e-commerce software development . . . 327--333 Javier García and Antonio de Amescua and Manuel Velasco and Ana Sanz Ten factors that impede improvement of verification and validation processes in software intensive organizations . . . . 335--343 Fergal Mc Caffery and Ita Richardson and Peter a Moller Automotive--adept: a lightweight assessment method for the automotive software industry . . . . . . . . . . . 345--353 Richard Messnarz and Damjan Ekert and Michael Reiner and Gearoid O'Suilleabhain Human resources based improvement strategies --- the learning factor . . . 355--362 Pasi Ojala Implementing a value assessment for products: an industrial case study . . . 363--370 Gunther Spork and Uwe Pichler Establishment of a performance driven improvement programme . . . . . . . . . 371--382
Darren Dalcher Editorials: Managing software processes: do we need new approaches? . . . . . . . 383--385 Timothy Burns and Robb Klashner and Fadi Deek An empirical evaluation of a methodology-tailoring information system development model . . . . . . . . . . . 387--395 Javier Saldaña Ramos and Javier García Guzmán and Antonio de Amescua Seco and Ana Sanz Esteban A study of reported practical experiences about TSP implementations 397--409 A. K. Tripathi and Ratneshwer Gupta and Manjari Gupta Some observations on software processes for CBSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--419 Philip S. Taylor and Des Greer and Gerry Coleman and Kevin McDaid and Frank Keenan Preparing small software companies for tailored agile method adoption: Minimally intrusive risk assessment . . 421--437 Charles A. Suscheck and Randal Ford Jazz improvisation as a learning metaphor for the scrum software development methodology . . . . . . . . 439--450 Nannette P. Napier and Jonathan Kim and Lars Mathiassen Software process re-engineering: a model and its application to an industrial case study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--471
Daniela Damian and Bikram Sengupta and Filippo Lanubile Editorials: Global software development: where are we headed? . . . . . . . . . . 473--475 Allen E. Milewski and Marilyn Tremaine and Felix Köbler and Richard Egan and Suling Zhang and Patrick O'Sullivan Guidelines for effective eridging in global software engineering . . . . . . 477--492 Timo Wolf and Thanh Nguyen and Daniela Damian Does distance still matter? . . . . . . 493--510 Valentine Casey and Ita Richardson Virtual teams: understanding the impact of fear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--526 Maria Paasivaara and Sandra Durasiewicz and Casper Lassenius Using scrum in a globally distributed project: a case study . . . . . . . . . 527--544
Darren Dalcher Editorials: Experimenting with new ways of thinking about processes . . . . . . 1--2 Demosthenes Akoumianakis Managing universal accessibility requirements in software-intensive projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--29 Pasi Ojala Experiences of a value assessment for products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--37 K. K. Aggarwal and Yogesh Singh and Arvinder Kaur and Ruchika Malhotra Empirical analysis for investigating the effect of object-oriented metrics on fault proneness: a replicated case study 39--62
Darren Dalcher Editorials: Attaining and sustaining organisational excellence: process improvement as a moving target . . . . . 63--64 Viviane Malheiros and Fábio Rilston Paim and Manoel Mendonça Continuous process improvement at a large software organization . . . . . . 65--83 Alexis Ocampo and Jürgen Münch Rationale modeling for software process evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--105 Lena Holmberg and Agneta Nilsson and Helena Holmström Olsson and Anna Börjesson Sandberg Appreciative inquiry in software process improvement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--125
David M. Raffo PhD Editorials: Examining process design and change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--128 Kesav V. Nori Requirements for design of processes . . 129--142 Colette Rolland Method engineering: towards methods as services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--164 Vahid Garousi and Keyvan Khosrovian and Dietmar Pfahl A customizable pattern-based software process simulation model: design, calibration and application . . . . . . 165--180 Ove Armbrust and Masafumi Katahira and Yuko Miyamoto and Jürgen Münch and Haruka Nakao and Alexis Ocampo Scoping software process lines . . . . . 181--197
David M. Raffo PhD Editorials: Addressing management issues 199--200 Eoin Ó Conchúir and Helena Holmström Olsson and Pär J. Ågerfalk and Brian Fitzgerald Benefits of global software development: exploring the unexplored . . . . . . . . 201--212 Tim Menzies and Steve Williams and Oussama Elrawas and Daniel Baker and Barry Boehm and Jairus Hihn and Karen Lum and Ray Madachy Accurate estimates without local data? 213--225 Lang Gou and Qing Wang and Jun Yuan and Ye Yang and Mingshu Li and Nan Jiang Quantitative defects management in iterative development with BiDefect . . 227--241
Miklós Biró and Richard Messnarz Editorials: SPI experiences and innovation for Global Software Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--245 Valentine Casey and Ita Richardson Implementation of Global Software Development: a structured approach . . . 247--262 Jòrn Johansen and Mads Christiansen Experience with Innovation Checks: a case study with 46 companies in Denmark 263--270 Fergal McCaffery and Gerry Coleman Lightweight SPI assessments: what is the real cost? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--278 Richard Messnarz and Hans-Leo Ross and Stephan Habel and Frank König and Abdelhadi Koundoussi and Jürgen Unterrreitmayer and Damjan Ekert Integrated Automotive SPICE and safety assessments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--288 Mariano Angel Montoni and Ana Regina Rocha and Kival Chaves Weber MPS.BR: a successful program for software process improvement in Brazil 289--300 Anonymous Errata: ``Benefits of global software development: exploring the unexplored'', Eoin Ó Conchúir, Helena Holmström Olsson, Pär J. Ågerfalk, Brian Fitzgerald . . . . 301--301
Darren Dalcher and David Raffo Editorials: Software process: the end of an era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--304 Luigi Buglione and Ricardo J. Rejas-Muslera and Juan José Cuadrado Gallego Strengthening maturity levels by a legal assurance process . . . . . . . . . . . 305--314 Alexander Poth Product line requirements engineering in the context of process aspects in organizations with various domains . . . 315--323 Andreas Riel and Serge Tichkiewitch and Richard Messnarz Integrated engineering skills for improving the system competence level 325--335 Paolo Salvaneschi Managing knowledge for information system evolution: the MinimalEDoc methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--347 Bernhard Sechser The marriage of two process worlds . . . 349--354 Siegfried Zopf Success factors for globally distributed projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--359