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As a consequence of Software Process Improvement success there are forces that urge for further evolution. One force is the need for eliciting and refining underlying SPI principles. This article introduces a modeling view of process and process improvement with three types of process models (Process Capability Profile, Process Enactment Description and Process Performance Indicator) and an example on a process improvement cycle. This modeling view improves the integrated understanding of what we want, what is the current status, what we can do and what we are doing for improvement during a cycle. This modeling view is then used as a basis for introducing Modeling driven (Knowledge Working) Process Improvement as an evolution of current Model-based (Software, Systems and Services) Process Improvement.
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Salviano, C.F. (2011). A Modeling View of Process Improvement. In: O’Connor, R.V., Rout, T., McCaffery, F., Dorling, A. (eds) Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination. SPICE 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 155. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21233-8_2
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