Developing An Integrated Process Methodology For Interim Software Releases

This paper covers factors that make production software releases successful – design complete, requirements complete, testing complete, customer expectations set, etc., and how a production software release process may not be fitting for an interim software release due to the state of the program during an interim release – one or all of the production release success factors possibly being incomplete, open system problem reports, interactions with other systems – hardware, communications and software interfaces, schedule interactions, resource constraints, etc. A discussion will follow on the need for an integrated process methodology that factors the incomplete nature of a program during an interim software release into the release decision methodology. The goals for the integrated process methodology will be discussed along with the next steps in developing the integrated process methodology for interim software releases.