Overview Advent is a software development organisation involved in the development and support of publishing systems based around its 3B2 publishing software. The Advent Group has grown rapidly over the last five years and now includes Advent Publishing Systems Ltd and Advent Software Ltd in its portfolio of companies. In March 1998 Advent introduced the Personal Software Process (PSP) on a pil...

The company’s main business objective is the development and growth of its customer base. The impact of this growth is that the organisation is becoming increasingly involved in larger projects, therefore increasing the size of software development teams. Management at Peregrine became aware that their current approach to source code management would not be adequate to handle this change. It wa...

Applying a Software Process Improvement (SPI) program to GEANT4 [1] represents a rather challenging task, both in terms of software development and organisational matters. The complexity of the software involved, the wide areas of application of the software product, the huge amount of code and Category complexity, and the size and distributed nature of the Collaboration itself are all ingredie...

Development of a protection profile under the Common Criteria is a demanding task, requiring difficult engineering decisions, complex analyses, and detailed knowledge about the intended environment and use for a product or system. We believe that building a protection profile is essentially a security engineering problem and is best approached by applying the Systems Security Engineering Capabi...

The necessity of lifelong learning is more and more recognized. Therefore, improvement of learning is very important. The process capability maturity modeling elaborated by the Software Engineering community could be employed for this purpose. This paper contributes to the solution of learning improvement problem based on process quality attributes modeling approach. The consciousness as a lear...

While software now pervades most facets of modern life, its historical problems have not been solved. This report explains why some of these problems have been so difficult for organizations to address and the actions required to address them. It describes the Software Engineering Institute’s (SEI) software process maturity model, how this model can be used to guide software organizations in pr...