Keynote Address: SW Engineering under Tight Economic Constrains

Abstract

Normally, it is challenging to find funding and to get the best R& D engineers to participate in quality and process improvement programs. The payback time is considerably long, and the benefits difficult to express reliably in monetary terms. How can you then proceed under tight business conditions: stable or declining markets with deteriorating margins?

The target of the presentation is to go through a few commonly recognized SW engineering paradigms such as the CMMI, requirements engineering, productized engineering environments, and the SW architecture process and to elaborate how we have been able to or plan to apply them in the current business environment.