Software Process: Improvement and Practice, Volume 11

Volume 11, Number 1, January-February 2006

Special Issue: The European Software Process Improvement Conference (EuroSPI) 2004
Editorials

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  Darren Dalcher:
  Software process: the next level. 1-2

Guest Editorials

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  Torgeir Dingsøyr:
  Software process improvement in Europe: selected articles from EuroSPI 2004. 3-5

Research Sections

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  Laura Lehtola, Marjo Kauppinen:
  Suitability of requirements prioritization methods for market-driven software product development. 7-19
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  Nils Brede Moe, Tore Dybå:
  The use of an electronic process guide in a medium-sized software development company. 21-34
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  Joost J. P. Schalken, Sjaak Brinkkemper, Hans van Vliet:
  A method to draw lessons from project postmortem databases. 35-46
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  Lars-Ola Damm, Lars Lundberg, Claes Wohlin:
  Faults-slip-through - a concept for measuring the efficiency of the test process. 47-59
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  Darja Smite:
  Global software development projects in one of the biggest companies in Latvia: is geographical distribution a problem? 61-76
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  Frank Padberg:
  A study on optimal scheduling for software projects. 77-91

Volume 11, Number 2, March-April 2006

Special Issue: Special Issue on Free or Open Source Software Development (F/OSSD) Projects
Editorials

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  Darren Dalcher:
  Software Process: the key to success. 93

Guest Editorials

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  Walt Scacchi, Joseph Feller, Brian Fitzgerald, Scott A. Hissam, Karim R. Lakhani:
  Understanding Free/Open Source Software Development Processes. 95-105

Research Sections

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  David Cruz, Thomas Wieland, Alexander Ziegler:
  Evaluation criteria for free/open source software products based on project analysis. 107-122
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  Kevin Crowston, James Howison, Hala Annabi:
  Information systems success in free and open source software development: theory and measures. 123-148
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  David M. Nichols, Michael B. Twidale:
  Usability processes in open source projects. 149-162
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  Adam A. Porter, Cemal Yilmaz, Atif M. Memon, Arvind S. Krishna, Douglas C. Schmidt, Aniruddha S. Gokhale:
  Techniques and processes for improving the quality and performance of open-source software. 163-176
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  Katherine J. Stewart, Sanjay Gosain:
  The moderating role of development stage in free/open source software project performance. 177-191
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  Mahmood Niazi, David Wilson, Didar Zowghi:
  Critical success factors for software process improvement implementation: an empirical study. 193-211

Volume 11, Number 3, May-June 2006

Special Issue: Special Issue on SPI Industrial Experience
Editorials

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  Darren Dalcher:
  Research and practice can co-exist. 213

Guest Editorials

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  Miklós Biró, Richard Messnarz:
  Special issue with selected industrial experience papers of EuroSPI²2005. 215-218

Practice Sections

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  Nathan Baddoo, Tracy Hall, Dorota Jagielska:
  Software developer motivation in a high maturity company: a case study. 219-228
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  Stefan Biffl, Dietmar Winkler, Reinhard Höhn, Herbert Wetzel:
  Software process improvement in Europe: potential of the new V-modell XT and research issues. 229-238
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  Miklós Biró, Csilla Deák, János Ivanyos, Richard Messnarz:
  From compliance to business success: improving outsourcing service controls by adopting external regulatory requirements. 239-249
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  Péter Fehér, András Gábor:
  The role of Knowledge Management Supporters in software development companies. 251-260
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  Javier García Guzmán, Román López-Cortijo García, Antonio de Amescua Seco, Gonzalo Cuevas Agustín:
  CASE STUDY: a practical approach for SPI in large Spanish companies. 261-268
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  Gerry Coleman, Martin McAnallen:
  Managing the challenges of legacy systems using extreme programming. 269-275
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  Fergal McCaffery, Darja Smite, F. George Wilkie, Donald McFall:
  A proposed way for European software industries to achieve growth within the global marketplace. 277-285
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  Richard Messnarz, Gearoid O'Suilleabhain, Ray Coughlan:
  From process improvement to learning organisations. 287-294
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  Joseph Momoh, Günther Ruhe:
  Release planning process improvement - an industrial case study. 295-307
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  Paolo Salvaneschi, Daniele Grasso, Maurizio Besurga:
  The role of process improvement in IT departments: experiences and lessons learned. 309-317
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  Kerstin V. Siakas, Bo Balstrup:
  Software outsourcing quality achieved by global virtual collaboration. 319-328
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  Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim, Timo Varkoi, Clênio F. Salviano:
  Standard based software process assessments in small companies. 329-335

Volume 11, Number 4, July-August 2006

Editorials

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  Darren Dalcher:
  Working in a complex environment. 337

Guest Editorials

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  Jürgen Münch, Dietmar Pfahl:
  Special issue on ProSim 2005, The 6th international workshop on software process simulation and modeling, St. Louis, Missouri, USA may 2005. 339-343

Research Sections

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  Marco Melis, Ivana Turnu, Alessandra Cau, Giulio Concas:
  Evaluating the impact of test-first programming and pair programming through software process simulation. 345-360
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  Dan Houston:
  An experience in facilitating process improvement with an integration problem reporting process simulation. 361-371
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  KeungSik Choi, Doo-Hwan Bae, TagGon Kim:
  An approach to a hybrid software process simulation using the DEVS formalism. 373-383
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  Yu Chen, Gerald C. Gannod, James S. Collofello:
  A software product line process simulator. 385-409
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  Márcio de Oliveira Barros, Alexandre Ribeiro Dantas, Gustavo Olanda Veronese, Cláudia Maria Lima Werner:
  Model-driven game development: experience and model enhancements in software project management education. 411-421
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  Neil Smith, Andrea Capiluppi, Juan F. Ramil:
  Agent-based simulation of open source evolution. 423-434
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  Sebastian Kiebusch, Bogdan Franczyk, Andreas Speck:
  An unadjusted size measurement of embedded software system families and its validation. 435-446

Volume 11, Number 5, September-October 2006

Guest Editorials

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  Pär J. Ågerfalk, Jolita Ralyté:
  Situational Requirements Engineering Processes: reflecting on method engineering and requirements practice. 447-450

Research Sections

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  Chad Coulin, Didar Zowghi, Abd-El-Kader Sahraoui:
  A situational method engineering approach to requirements elicitation workshops in the software development process. 451-464
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  Johan F. Hoorn, Mark E. Breuker, Evelien Kok:
  Shifts in foci and priorities. Different relevance of requirements to changing goals yields conflicting prioritizations and is viewpoint-dependent. 465-485
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  Régine Laleau, Sylvie Vignes, Yves Ledru, Michel Lemoine, Didier Bert, Véronique Donzeau-Gouge, Catherine Dubois, Fabien Peureux:
  Adopting a situational requirements engineering approach for the analysis of civil aviation security standards. 487-503
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  Toshihiko Tsumaki, Tetsuo Tamai:
  Framework for matching requirements elicitation techniques to project characteristics. 505-519
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  Inge van de Weerd, Sjaak Brinkkemper, Jurriaan Souer, Johan Versendaal:
  A situational implementation method for web-based content management system-applications: method engineering and validation in practice. 521-538
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  Mauri Leppänen:
  Conceptual evaluation of methods for engineering situational ISD methods. 539-555

Volume 11, Number 6, November/December 2006

Editorials

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  Darren Dalcher:
  Supporting software development: enhancing productivity, management and control. 557-559

Research Sections

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  Mette Asmild, Joseph C. Paradi, Atin Kulkarni:
  Using Data Envelopment Analysis in software development productivity measurement. 561-572
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  Xiaoqing Frank Liu, Yan Sun, Gautam Kane, Yuji Kyoya, Kunio Noguchi:
  Business-oriented software process improvement based on CMM using QFD. 573-589
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  Muthu Ramachandran:
  Automated improvement for component reuse. 591-599
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  James Miller, Hean Chin Yeoh:
  COTS acquisition process: incorporating business factors into COTS vendor evaluation taxonomies. 601-626
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  Michael Meisinger, Andreas Rausch, Marc Sihling:
  4everedit - Team-based Process Documentation Management. 627-642