What Is a Process?
Recently, everybody seems to be talking about “process improvement,” “process design,“ “process maturity, “ and so on. But what actually IS a process? The term has a similar depth and...
View ArticleProcess Optimization: Wishful Thinking or Reality?
“85% of the reasons for refusing to fulfil customer expectations you can trace back to failures of systems and processes, and less to people. The task of management is to change processes not the...
View ArticleProcess by Objectives
“There are no problems, only solutions” – John Lennon On the third maturity level of the CMMI model, a comprehensive process model must be defined. Process modeling is well-known to be a challenge that...
View ArticleBack to the Mediocrity Through Obligatory Process Definition?
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” – Albert Einstein It is a frequently...
View ArticleViral Microprocesses – Micromanagement, Reloaded
“Mr. Consultant, this is really simple. Please just write down how you proceed with the use case specification step by step. This must be straightforward; you will surely have something like this...
View ArticleBusiness Process Modelling: Mission Impossible?
At first sight the task appears easy: capture the business processes, visualize them in an easy to understand form and use them as a basis for quality or efficiency improvement projects. This goal may...
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The Excel Trap
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. – Abraham H. Maslow The pressure on the team is growing every day. The introduction of the process area “Requirements...
View ArticleSPICE Conference 2012
May 29, 2012toMay 31, 2012The SPICE Conference 2012 takes place in Palma de Mallorca from the 29th to 31st of May. Now in its 20th year, the conference will focus on some of the implications of the...
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Rational Agility
Is it possible to be agile in a complex, real-time, embedded environment? How does it fit in with the heavily regulated, ISO 15504/CMMI, product safety-orientated processes increasingly demanded by the...
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Processes Stink!
Standards can be useful in software development. A “clean and well-defined” collection of Best Practices (only recently known as “good practices”) is potentially a useful idea. On the other hand, in...
View ArticleProcess by Objectives
“There are no problems, only solutions” – John Lennon On the third maturity level of the CMMI model, a comprehensive process model must be defined. Process modeling is well-known to be a challenge that...
View ArticleBack to the Mediocrity Through Obligatory Process Definition?
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” – Albert Einstein It is a frequently...
View ArticleViral Microprocesses – Micromanagement, Reloaded
“Mr. Consultant, this is really simple. Please just write down how you proceed with the use case specification step by step. This must be straightforward; you will surely have something like this...
View ArticleBusiness Process Modelling: Mission Impossible?
At first sight the task appears easy: capture the business processes, visualize them in an easy to understand form and use them as a basis for quality or efficiency improvement projects. This goal may...
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The Excel Trap
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. – Abraham H. Maslow The pressure on the team is growing every day. The introduction of the process area “Requirements...
View ArticleSPICE Conference 2012
The SPICE Conference 2012 takes place in Palma de Mallorca from the 29th to 31st of May. Now in its 20th year, the conference will focus on some of the implications of the new, more open architecture...
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Rational Agility
Is it possible to be agile in a complex, real-time, embedded environment? How does it fit in with the heavily regulated, ISO 15504/CMMI, product safety-orientated processes increasingly demanded by the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Processes Stink!
Standards can be useful in software development. A “clean and well-defined” collection of Best Practices (only recently known as “good practices”) is potentially a useful idea. On the other hand, in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The TCC
TCC – the Team Capability Coach – is a quality leadership project role, aiming at maximizing the effectiveness of process quality assurance. A TCC is an approach that combines and extends quality...
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SME – the Subject Matter Expert
In technology-centric product development organizations, promoting and retaining talent while fostering a culture of technical excellence is essential. An established role of Subject Metter Experts, or...
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