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European Workshop on Software Process Technology

EWSPT 2000: Software Process Technology pp 176–189Cite as

Descriptive process modeling in an industrial environment: Experience and guidelines

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Abstract

Process modeling is a key activity in process improvement to understand the software process, to detect weaknesses in the process and to allow estimation. A mjor problem when process modeling is done in industrial environment is obtaining access to the information needed. This paper describes experience from descriptive process modeling in an industrial environment and reports problems and difficulties encountered in acquiring and formalizing that knowledge. From the experience, guidelines for descriptive process modeling activities, especially for process knowledge acquisition, are derived.

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  1. Fraunhofer Institut für Experimentelles Software Engineering (IESE), Sauerwiesen 6, D-67661, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Ulrike Becker-Kornstaedt

  2. Space Infrastructure Division, DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG, P.O. Box 28 61 56, D-28361, Bremen, Germany

    Wolfgang Belau

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Becker-Kornstaedt, U., Belau, W. (2000). Descriptive process modeling in an industrial environment: Experience and guidelines. In: Conradi, R. (eds) Software Process Technology. EWSPT 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1780. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0095027

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