Software product line approaches produce reusable platforms and architectures for products set developed by specific companies. These approaches are strategic in nature requiring coordination, discipline, commonality and communication. The Capability Maturity Model (CMM) contains important guidelines for process improvement, and specifies "what" we must have into account to achieve the discipli...

Downsizing, and consolidation of previously independent companies, has produced a clash of cultures in many companies. The problem is exacerbated by "home-grown" product development cultures that have been around for decades and often fail to adequately integrate new disciplines such as software engineering and systems engineering. Over the years, the pace and complexity of technological develo...

In the mid-1980s, the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research and Engineering (MITRE) Corporation began development of a process maturity framework to help organizations improve their software development and maintenance processes. Over the next several years, the framework evolved from a description of software process maturity (Humphrey and Swee...

process capability indices show the ability of a process to produce products according to the pre-specified requirements. since final quality characteristics of a product are usually interrelated to its previous amounts in earlier workstations, one need to model and consider the relationship among them to assess the process ca-pability properly. hence, conducting process capability analysis in ...

Along with the significance of information systems in today’s global business operation, the significance of information systems control and audit is ever increasing in the effort to secure accuracy and integrity of vital business data. A study is undertaken to integrate Food and Drug Administration computerized systems validation regulations, Securities & Exchange Commission Sarbanes-Oxley Act...

Product software companies face the challenge of shipping new releases of their software products in time, within budget, with the right quality, and for a good price. As we encountered many performance failures in this respect, we started to build a product software knowledge infrastructure, which, when fully materialized, can help to increase the maturity of a company’s processes. The infrast...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: First product commercialization Resource–capability complementarity New technology ventures Supplier integration The current study extends work on resource-based theory (RBT) by exploring resource—capability complementarity in a new context—that of new technology ventures' (NTVs) first product (FP) commercialization in India. This study examines the influence of ...

Statistical techniques are effective and powerful means of quantifying the variability of processes, analyzing this variability with reference to product requirements, and eliminating this variability in product manufacturing. Many process capability indices have been effectively and widely used to determine whether the quality of a process meets preset targets. However, conventional process ca...