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Historical Significance and Suggestions on Future Works of Software Process Improvement in Japan

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Abstract

Various types of software process improvement activities have been carried out in each company to achieve good results in Japan. The process improvement activities and methods have to be organized from comprehensive perspective for more progress in the future [26]. In this paper, we draw up a chronology of important events related to software development to look back on a history of software process improvement in Japan. Furthermore, the chronology is divided into three periods and we try to find historical significance in each period.

  1. (1)

    QC/TQC-based improvement phase (1971–1990)

  2. (2)

    Model-based improvement phase (1991–2006)

  3. (3)

    Mixture phase of Model-based and Problem-based improvement phase (2007–2015)

According to the investigation, we suggest future works in software process improvement in Japan.

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Ogasawara, H., Kusanagi, T., Ito, Y., Adachi, K., Kobata, K. (2019). Historical Significance and Suggestions on Future Works of Software Process Improvement in Japan. In: Walker, A., O'Connor, R., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1060. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28005-5_29

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