A working party composed of representatives from the ICT industry has cautioned that mandating software quality accreditation can be detrimental to small to medium companies and is pushing instead for ...

Because of challenges often experienced when deploying software, many firms have embarked on software process improvement (SPI) initiatives. Critical to the success of these initiatives is the ...

Process improvement involves the business practice of identifying, analyzing and improving existing business processes to optimize performance, meet best practice standards or simply improve quality ...

Successful process improvement factors vary by company and the type of process. While one company is concerned with decreasing customer complaints, another may need to increase production or eliminate ...

Electronics and software development are a key feature — in terms of cost and value — for automotive manufacturers and suppliers. With complexity and challenges in quality, cost and time to market, ...

Narayan Ramasubbu, Sunil Mithas, M. S. Krishnan and Chris F. Kemerer In this paper we develop a learning-mediated model of offshore software project productivity and quality to examine whether widely ...

Every product has defects. Finding them as early in the development process as possible is definitely something to strive for. Building quality into software as it's being developed is far more ...