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In this article we have described a prototype process improvement model. Such a model is essential to sustained, incremental process improvement. It provides a formal mechanism that when supported by data aids decision making for process improvement, helps to identify tradeoffs in different processes and highlights important measurement considerations for supporting sustained, incremental process improvement. In particular, we notice that considerable attention must be paid to evaluating the performance of subprocesses.
This work has been developed jointly with GianLuigi Caldiera and Sandro Morasca
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Porter, A.A. (1993). Rethinking measurement to support incremental process improvement. In: Rombach, H.D., Basili, V.R., Selby, R.W. (eds) Experimental Software Engineering Issues: Critical Assessment and Future Directions. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 706. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57092-6_104
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