It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the first "Business Impact of Process Improvements" (BIPI-2008) workshop. The workshop is held in conjunction with the ICSE-2008 and addresses the software engineering community -- specifically those who care for business impact and business value of changes and investments.
The topic of this workshop is achieving tangible and sustainable business impact from process improvements. The focus is on approaches that are both practical and quantifiable. The kinds of process improvements addressed include, but are not limited to, the introduction of iterative, agile or "lean" approaches, improved requirements engineering, risk management, usage of process improvement reference frameworks, and improved quality control and assurance. The business impact should be illustrated through either increasing the value of what is delivered to the customer or reducing the cost (for example by reduction of rework effort). The audience will share experiences how to reliably set-up, measure and achieve business-oriented process improvements in order to increase return on investment in software engineering.
The goal of the "Business Impact of Process Improvements" (BIPI) workshop is to establish a forum where practical and quantifiable value in process improvement is reviewed and consolidated to advance software engineering improvement programs. Too often, there is too little connection to the impact for the business and in such a way that the recommended approaches are able to be applied in practice. We explicitly strive to serve as an appropriate forum for bridging the academic, research, business, and industrial practice communities.
We hope that you will find this program interesting, thought-provoking, and especially give you useful ideas on measuring and improving the business impact of many kinds of process improvements. We hope also that through this workshop you had a valuable opportunity to share ideas with other researchers and practitioners from institutions around the world on this important topic.
Proceeding Downloads
Capturing business benefits from process improvement: four fallacies and what to do about them
A basic assumption underlying any process improvement initiative is that it will have a positive impact on the organization. Therefore, it can become easy to assume that process change will in fact deliver benefits to business. This paper takes a ...
Strategic alignment of software process improvement programs using QFD
Software process improvement programs increase the competitiveness of software development organizations. But a critical success factor in this context is the proper alignment between the strategy of such programs and the organization's business ...
A framework for software project estimation based on cosmic, dsm and rework characterization
Effective software project estimation is one of the most challenging activities in software development. In today's highly competitive world, accurate software estimation can make the difference between successful projects and dismal failures. Proper ...
Using opinion polls to help measure business impact in agile development
The achievement of quantifiable business impact is an essential goal of improvement activities in software development. Traditionally, a set of well-defined metrics built up a sound foundation for measuring the effects on business improvements before ...
Towards a model for cost-benefit-analysis of quality assurance in the automotive E/E development
This paper analyzes concepts to measure benefits of quality assurance measures applied in the electric / electronics (E/E) development in the automotive domain. Therefore selected models are examined and their suitability in the given context is ...
Seven essentials of software process
A hybrid view of software development has risen from the collision and convergence of grassroots and craft-based process trends with research and engineering-based ones. In this talk, I will first explain the seven essential characteristics of this ...
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