Process Improvement in Large-Scale Industrial Environments Based on SCM

Abstract Process improvement in a large-scale industrial environment is a challenge for numerous reasons. Besides others it is difficult to convince and motivate a critical mass of the staff and it is particularly expensive to train a large number of developers and managers. Established Software Configuration Management (SCM) practices pave the way to improve in a more efficient “bottom-up fashion” by processes based on SCM concepts. This paper describes the reasoning that justifies bottom-up process improvement based on SCM and presents our practical experiences with SCM-based process improvement in a large scale industrial environment.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: SERP
• Authors: Tilman Seifert, Markus Pizka, Karlheinz Raith
• Keywords: Abstract Process Improvement, Bottom-up Process Improvement, Process Improvement, SERP 2003, SERP 2007