Software process improvement (SPI) can be seen as a profession having its own competence
needs and its own community of interest. European projects EQN and EU Cert have …

Since the beginning of the 1990ies process improvement was considered as a formal issue.
Focus was on process description and improvement was a somewhat better description. …

Tietoyhteiskuntatoiminnan käsitteet ja painotukset ovat muuttuneet vuosien kuluessa, mutta
paljon on samaakin ja jatkuvasti toistettua. Tavoitteena oli seuloa esiin aikaisempien …

The paper discusses structure, quality and content of the currently available agile maturity
models. It presents two approaches on how to deal with such models. As a first step of the …

From the agile camp you can hear someone to say that CMMI is the big American waterfall
model monster, and is outright contra productive to agile methods. From the CMMI camp you …

The paper describes the current status of agile maturity models. It shows where such models
can be found and it contains a structured top level compilation of the currently available …

… Ovi Bachmann3, Andreas Riel4, Klaudia Dussa-Zieger5, Risto Nevalainen6, and Serge
Tichkiewitch4 … Dussa-Zieger@methodpark.de 6 Spinet Oy and FISMA, Finland risto.nevalainen@…

In the nuclear domain, regulators have strict requirements for safetycritical software. In this
paper requirements in three documents (two software standards and the Common Position of …

Functional Safety has become a vital property of many products and systems. There is a clear
trend to move safety functions from pure mechanics into electronic control units. Therefore …

Applications of process assessment have been established in various domains that require
also safety considerations regarding processes, products and services. Often, the scope of …