In the rapid technological innovation and changes era, the key to the survival company is the continuous improvement of its process. In this paper, we introduce Software Process Improvement (SPI) and Quality Function Deployment (QFD); and for combining also the staged model and the continuous model in CMMI, the Software Process Improvement framework with CMMI has two parts: 1) Software Process ...

This paper conceptualises the enhancement of technological capability by firms, following international technology transfer, as an evolutionary process. During this process, the existing technological, managerial and other complementary resources may require restructuring. Since China is in transition from central planning to market orientation, the organisational and managerial practices of Ch...

The paper presents preliminary numerical and experimental studies of active textile-reinforced thermoplastic composites with embedded sensor-actuator arrays. The goal of the investigations was the assessment of directional sound wave generation capability using embedded sensor-actuator arrays and developed a wave excitation procedure for ultrasound measurement tasks. The feasibility of the prop...

ISO 13407 standard [1] defines a set of User-Centered Design (UCD) activities and principles through which usable systems can be developed. Still there exist quite a few organizations, which systematically and consciously apply UCD in their product development. Usability capability is a characteristic of a development organization that determines its ability to constantly develop products with ...

Maintaining and supporting the software of an organization is not an easy task, and software maintenance managers do not currently have access to tools to evaluate strategies for improving the specific activities of software maintenance. This article presents the new architecture (version 2.0) of the software maintenance capability maturity model (SM). The contributions of this paper are: 1) to...