Adapting Software Development Process for Customer Requirements and Personnel Capability

Producing a software product with sufficient quality within estimated cost is an important issue for software projects. It is necessary that a process be designed and adapted for the project, as customer requirements and other constraints are specific to each project. Based on the measured capability of human resource, development efforts must be estimated accurately, for each defined process. We set our research goal on a software process design and adaptation support system. This paper describes a conceptual model for software process design support in a formal manner. As it requires measurement of process and product data for process design and adaptation support, its support system must be implemented. This paper also describes an experiment for measuring personal capability using product and process metrics, and architecture of the support system.