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Practical approach to development of SPI activities in a large organization: Toshiba's SPI history since 2000

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Hideto Ogasawara,

Takashi Ishikawa,

Tetsuro MoriyaAuthors Info & Claims

ICSE '06: Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering

Pages 595 - 599

https://doi.org/10.1145/1134285.1134369

Published: 28 May 2006 Publication History

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For the effective promotion of software process improvement (SPI) activities in a large-scale organization, it is necessary to establish an organizational structure and a deployment method for promotion and to develop training courses, support tools, and other materials. Even if an organizational promotion system is established, the SPI activities of each development department cannot be promoted effectively without SPI community. To promote SPI activities throughout the TOSHIBA group, we organized a Corporate Software Engineering Process Group in April 2000. We also have been focused to establish SPI community, while promoting SPI activities in each development department. The fundamental our operating policy of SPI is "bottom-up". This paper discusses the problems encountered in the promotion of SPI activities and presents solutions to the problems. The actual results obtained show that the framework and solutions developed by us can be used to effectively promote SPI activities.

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Ogasawara HKusanagi TAizawa M(2014)Proposal and practice of software process improvement framework - Toshiba's software process improvement history since 2000Journal of Software: Evolution and Process10.1002/smr.160726:5(521-529)Online publication date: 1-May-2014
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Practical approach to development of SPI activities in a large organization: Toshiba's SPI history since 2000
1. Social and professional topics
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    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Software management

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ICSE '06: Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering

May 2006

1110 pages

ISBN:1595933751

DOI:10.1145/1134285

General Chair:
Leon J. Osterweil
University of Massachusetts, USA
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TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
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Mary Lou Soffa
University of Virginia, USA

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Sharma PSangal A(2018)Framework for empirical examination and modeling structural dependencies among inhibitors that impact SPI implementation initiatives in software SMEsJournal of Software: Evolution and Process10.1002/smr.199330:12Online publication date: 12-Dec-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1002/smr.1993
Ogasawara HKusanagi TAizawa M(2014)Proposal and practice of software process improvement framework - Toshiba's software process improvement history since 2000Journal of Software: Evolution and Process10.1002/smr.160726:5(521-529)Online publication date: 1-May-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1002/smr.1607
Ramasubbu NBharadwaj ATayi G(undefined)Software Process Diversity: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Analysis of Impact on Project PerformanceSSRN Electronic Journal10.2139/ssrn.2627173
https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2627173

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