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Jarmo J Ahonen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • improving the product documentation process of a Small Software Company
    Product Focused Software Process Improvement, 2009
    Co-Authors: Anu Valtanen, Jarmo J Ahonen, Paula Savolainen
    Abstract:

    Documentation is an important part of the Software process, even though it is often neglected in Software companies. The eternal question is how much documentation is enough. In this article, we present a practical implementation of lightweight product documentation process resulting from SPI efforts in a Small Company. Small companies’ financial and human resources are often limited. The documentation process described here, offers a template for creating adequate documentation consuming minimal amount of resources. The key element of the documentation process is an open source web-based bugtracking system that was customized to be used as a documentation tool. The use of the tool enables iterative and well structured documentation. The solution best serves the needs of a Small Company with off-the-shelf Software products and striving for SPI.

  • PROFES - Improving the Product Documentation Process of a Small Software Company
    Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, 2009
    Co-Authors: Anu Valtanen, Jarmo J Ahonen, Paula Savolainen
    Abstract:

    Documentation is an important part of the Software process, even though it is often neglected in Software companies. The eternal question is how much documentation is enough. In this article, we present a practical implementation of lightweight product documentation process resulting from SPI efforts in a Small Company. Small companies’ financial and human resources are often limited. The documentation process described here, offers a template for creating adequate documentation consuming minimal amount of resources. The key element of the documentation process is an open source web-based bugtracking system that was customized to be used as a documentation tool. The use of the tool enables iterative and well structured documentation. The solution best serves the needs of a Small Company with off-the-shelf Software products and striving for SPI.

  • big improvements with Small changes improving the processes of a Small Software Company
    Product Focused Software Process Improvement, 2008
    Co-Authors: Anu Valtanen, Jarmo J Ahonen
    Abstract:

    Majority of Software companies are Small. They have understood that it is crucial for their business to improve their Software processes but they often do not have the knowledge and resources to do it. In this paper one way of introducing a process culture and improving the processes of a Small Company is presented. The problems that a Small Company has with its efforts towards better processes are also discussed and simple but working solutions to them are introduced.

  • PROFES - Big Improvements with Small Changes: Improving the Processes of a Small Software Company
    Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, 2008
    Co-Authors: Anu Valtanen, Jarmo J Ahonen
    Abstract:

    Majority of Software companies are Small. They have understood that it is crucial for their business to improve their Software processes but they often do not have the knowledge and resources to do it. In this paper one way of introducing a process culture and improving the processes of a Small Company is presented. The problems that a Small Company has with its efforts towards better processes are also discussed and simple but working solutions to them are introduced.

  • spi with lightweight Software process modeling in a Small Software Company
    European conference on Software Process Improvement, 2007
    Co-Authors: Paula Savolainen, Hannamiina Sihvonen, Jarmo J Ahonen
    Abstract:

    In Small growing Software companies, it is important to pay attention to Software process improvement (SPI) in order to be successful and competitive in both domestic and foreign markets. However, limited resources and lack of knowledge about process culture may hinder the improvement efforts in Small companies. In this paper, we present development activities done in a Small growing Software Company in order to establish basis for SPI. Familiarizing to processes and SPI is done by modeling Company's processes using a lightweight Software process modeling technique. The modeling combined with external consulting provides the Company with capability to visualize their processes and to identify the problems in the processes. The improvement activities have been triggered by pointing out the problems. In the presented case, the Company has independently implemented quite significant improvements for identified problems by acquiring needed knowledge and by implementing new tools to support workflows.

Dalibor Dobrilovic - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • evaluating Software maintenance processes in Small Software Company based on fuzzy screening
    Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics, 2014
    Co-Authors: Zeljko Stojanov, Vladimir Brtka, Dalibor Dobrilovic
    Abstract:

    Software maintenance is recognized as the most costly part of Software life cycle. Evaluation of maintenance processes in order to improve planning activities is essential for increasing the efficiency of services provided to clients and the quality of Software products. This paper presents a study on evaluating five typical maintenance processes in Small Software Company. Evaluation is based on fuzzy screening procedure and includes four experts, three from the Company and one from the university. Data for processes description are extracted from the internal repository of maintenance requests in the Company and discretized by experts. Results of data analysis indicate that fuzzy screening is suitable technique for evaluating maintenance process, which is necessary for improving maintenance planning and management activities.

  • SACI - Evaluating Software maintenance processes in Small Software Company based on fuzzy screening
    2014 IEEE 9th IEEE International Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics (SACI), 2014
    Co-Authors: Zeljko Stojanov, Vladimir Brtka, Dalibor Dobrilovic
    Abstract:

    Software maintenance is recognized as the most costly part of Software life cycle. Evaluation of maintenance processes in order to improve planning activities is essential for increasing the efficiency of services provided to clients and the quality of Software products. This paper presents a study on evaluating five typical maintenance processes in Small Software Company. Evaluation is based on fuzzy screening procedure and includes four experts, three from the Company and one from the university. Data for processes description are extracted from the internal repository of maintenance requests in the Company and discretized by experts. Results of data analysis indicate that fuzzy screening is suitable technique for evaluating maintenance process, which is necessary for improving maintenance planning and management activities.

  • SISY - Evaluation of the Software maintenance tasks based on fuzzy screening
    2013 IEEE 11th International Symposium on Intelligent Systems and Informatics (SISY), 2013
    Co-Authors: Zeljko Stojanov, Vladimir Brtka, Dalibor Dobrilovic
    Abstract:

    Evaluation of Software maintenance tasks can significantly contribute to the efficiency of maintenance management, which is recognized as the most costly part of the Software life cycle. This paper presents an approach to evaluation of Software maintenance tasks based on fuzzy screening. The construction of data set for the case study is based on the real data extracted from the maintenance repository available in a local very Small Software Company. In the construction of data set participated researchers and experienced Software experts from the selected Company. Results of the analysis provide evidence that fuzzy screening can be used for evaluation of maintenance tasks based on selected attributes. Further work directions are outlined in the conclusion section.

  • Analyzing Trends for Maintenance Request Process Assessment: Empirical Investigation in a Very Small Software Company
    Theory and Applications of Mathematics & Computer Science, 2013
    Co-Authors: Zeljko Stojanov, Dalibor Dobrilovic, Jelena Stojanov
    Abstract:

    Assessment and improvement of Software maintenance processes in Small Software companies is very important because of large costs of maintenance and constraints of Small Software companies. This study presents an approach to assessment of Software maintenance requests' processing in a very Small local Software Company. The approach is context dependent and uses trend analysis and feedback sessions for assessing the current state of maintenance request processing. The analysis is based on various sources of data such as: internal repository of maintenance requests, Company documents, transcribed records of interviews with Company employees, and transcribed records of feedback sessions. Monthly trends for maintenance requests, working hours and types of maintenance tasks, by considering clients and Software products are presented in the article. Identified trends were discussed during feedback sessions in the Company. Participants in feedback sessions were Company employees and researchers. During discussions of trends, some directions for further improvement of maintenance requests' processing were proposed. The article concludes with implications for practitioners from industry and researchers, as well as further research directions.

  • context dependent maintenance effort estimation case study in a Small Software Company
    Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics, 2013
    Co-Authors: Zeljko Stojanov, Dalibor Dobrilovic, Jelena Stojanov, Vesna Jevtic
    Abstract:

    This paper presents an approach to Software maintenance effort estimation based on the analysis of Software maintenance requests available in issue tracking system in a very Small local Software Company. Over 1900 requests, collected during 19 months in 2010 and 2011, were selected for analysis. The approach takes into account: the frequency of submitted user requests for particular periods of time important for organizing work in the Company, the existence of maintenance service agreement for clients, the number of programmers assigned to the task associated to each request, and the number of working hours required for requests solving. The approach calculates correlation and establishes linear regression between frequencies of submitted user requests and the average time required for completing requests. This approach estimates an average number of working hours for processing user requests in periods of time that are important for internal Company organization. In the paper are also discussed implications for practice and research, and provided recommendations for adapting this approach to other Small Software companies.

Zeljko Stojanov - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • evaluating Software maintenance processes in Small Software Company based on fuzzy screening
    Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics, 2014
    Co-Authors: Zeljko Stojanov, Vladimir Brtka, Dalibor Dobrilovic
    Abstract:

    Software maintenance is recognized as the most costly part of Software life cycle. Evaluation of maintenance processes in order to improve planning activities is essential for increasing the efficiency of services provided to clients and the quality of Software products. This paper presents a study on evaluating five typical maintenance processes in Small Software Company. Evaluation is based on fuzzy screening procedure and includes four experts, three from the Company and one from the university. Data for processes description are extracted from the internal repository of maintenance requests in the Company and discretized by experts. Results of data analysis indicate that fuzzy screening is suitable technique for evaluating maintenance process, which is necessary for improving maintenance planning and management activities.

  • SACI - Evaluating Software maintenance processes in Small Software Company based on fuzzy screening
    2014 IEEE 9th IEEE International Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics (SACI), 2014
    Co-Authors: Zeljko Stojanov, Vladimir Brtka, Dalibor Dobrilovic
    Abstract:

    Software maintenance is recognized as the most costly part of Software life cycle. Evaluation of maintenance processes in order to improve planning activities is essential for increasing the efficiency of services provided to clients and the quality of Software products. This paper presents a study on evaluating five typical maintenance processes in Small Software Company. Evaluation is based on fuzzy screening procedure and includes four experts, three from the Company and one from the university. Data for processes description are extracted from the internal repository of maintenance requests in the Company and discretized by experts. Results of data analysis indicate that fuzzy screening is suitable technique for evaluating maintenance process, which is necessary for improving maintenance planning and management activities.

  • SISY - Evaluation of the Software maintenance tasks based on fuzzy screening
    2013 IEEE 11th International Symposium on Intelligent Systems and Informatics (SISY), 2013
    Co-Authors: Zeljko Stojanov, Vladimir Brtka, Dalibor Dobrilovic
    Abstract:

    Evaluation of Software maintenance tasks can significantly contribute to the efficiency of maintenance management, which is recognized as the most costly part of the Software life cycle. This paper presents an approach to evaluation of Software maintenance tasks based on fuzzy screening. The construction of data set for the case study is based on the real data extracted from the maintenance repository available in a local very Small Software Company. In the construction of data set participated researchers and experienced Software experts from the selected Company. Results of the analysis provide evidence that fuzzy screening can be used for evaluation of maintenance tasks based on selected attributes. Further work directions are outlined in the conclusion section.

  • Analyzing Trends for Maintenance Request Process Assessment: Empirical Investigation in a Very Small Software Company
    Theory and Applications of Mathematics & Computer Science, 2013
    Co-Authors: Zeljko Stojanov, Dalibor Dobrilovic, Jelena Stojanov
    Abstract:

    Assessment and improvement of Software maintenance processes in Small Software companies is very important because of large costs of maintenance and constraints of Small Software companies. This study presents an approach to assessment of Software maintenance requests' processing in a very Small local Software Company. The approach is context dependent and uses trend analysis and feedback sessions for assessing the current state of maintenance request processing. The analysis is based on various sources of data such as: internal repository of maintenance requests, Company documents, transcribed records of interviews with Company employees, and transcribed records of feedback sessions. Monthly trends for maintenance requests, working hours and types of maintenance tasks, by considering clients and Software products are presented in the article. Identified trends were discussed during feedback sessions in the Company. Participants in feedback sessions were Company employees and researchers. During discussions of trends, some directions for further improvement of maintenance requests' processing were proposed. The article concludes with implications for practitioners from industry and researchers, as well as further research directions.

  • context dependent maintenance effort estimation case study in a Small Software Company
    Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics, 2013
    Co-Authors: Zeljko Stojanov, Dalibor Dobrilovic, Jelena Stojanov, Vesna Jevtic
    Abstract:

    This paper presents an approach to Software maintenance effort estimation based on the analysis of Software maintenance requests available in issue tracking system in a very Small local Software Company. Over 1900 requests, collected during 19 months in 2010 and 2011, were selected for analysis. The approach takes into account: the frequency of submitted user requests for particular periods of time important for organizing work in the Company, the existence of maintenance service agreement for clients, the number of programmers assigned to the task associated to each request, and the number of working hours required for requests solving. The approach calculates correlation and establishes linear regression between frequencies of submitted user requests and the average time required for completing requests. This approach estimates an average number of working hours for processing user requests in periods of time that are important for internal Company organization. In the paper are also discussed implications for practice and research, and provided recommendations for adapting this approach to other Small Software companies.

Thomas Arts - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Assessing the effects of introducing a new Software development process: a methodological description
    International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer, 2015
    Co-Authors: Agneta Nilsson, Samuel Rivas, Laura M. Castro, Thomas Arts
    Abstract:

    In this article, we report from a 22-months long action research study in which we evaluate the usefulness of a set of Software development tools in an industrial setting, a Small Software Company. We focus on how developers in the industry use and adopt these tools, what expectations they have on them, how the tools can be improved, and how the adoption process itself can be improved. We describe these change processes from a methodological perspective, how we monitored the processes, how we reviewed the outcomes, and the strategies that we applied. We show how the processes evolved, intermediate results, and the steps that were taken along the way based on the outcomes. We believe that the described study may inspire other tool-developers and/or researchers to organize similar studies to further our understanding of the complex processes involved in the adoption of Software development tools in industry.

Anu Valtanen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • improving the product documentation process of a Small Software Company
    Product Focused Software Process Improvement, 2009
    Co-Authors: Anu Valtanen, Jarmo J Ahonen, Paula Savolainen
    Abstract:

    Documentation is an important part of the Software process, even though it is often neglected in Software companies. The eternal question is how much documentation is enough. In this article, we present a practical implementation of lightweight product documentation process resulting from SPI efforts in a Small Company. Small companies’ financial and human resources are often limited. The documentation process described here, offers a template for creating adequate documentation consuming minimal amount of resources. The key element of the documentation process is an open source web-based bugtracking system that was customized to be used as a documentation tool. The use of the tool enables iterative and well structured documentation. The solution best serves the needs of a Small Company with off-the-shelf Software products and striving for SPI.

  • PROFES - Improving the Product Documentation Process of a Small Software Company
    Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, 2009
    Co-Authors: Anu Valtanen, Jarmo J Ahonen, Paula Savolainen
    Abstract:

    Documentation is an important part of the Software process, even though it is often neglected in Software companies. The eternal question is how much documentation is enough. In this article, we present a practical implementation of lightweight product documentation process resulting from SPI efforts in a Small Company. Small companies’ financial and human resources are often limited. The documentation process described here, offers a template for creating adequate documentation consuming minimal amount of resources. The key element of the documentation process is an open source web-based bugtracking system that was customized to be used as a documentation tool. The use of the tool enables iterative and well structured documentation. The solution best serves the needs of a Small Company with off-the-shelf Software products and striving for SPI.

  • big improvements with Small changes improving the processes of a Small Software Company
    Product Focused Software Process Improvement, 2008
    Co-Authors: Anu Valtanen, Jarmo J Ahonen
    Abstract:

    Majority of Software companies are Small. They have understood that it is crucial for their business to improve their Software processes but they often do not have the knowledge and resources to do it. In this paper one way of introducing a process culture and improving the processes of a Small Company is presented. The problems that a Small Company has with its efforts towards better processes are also discussed and simple but working solutions to them are introduced.

  • PROFES - Big Improvements with Small Changes: Improving the Processes of a Small Software Company
    Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, 2008
    Co-Authors: Anu Valtanen, Jarmo J Ahonen
    Abstract:

    Majority of Software companies are Small. They have understood that it is crucial for their business to improve their Software processes but they often do not have the knowledge and resources to do it. In this paper one way of introducing a process culture and improving the processes of a Small Company is presented. The problems that a Small Company has with its efforts towards better processes are also discussed and simple but working solutions to them are introduced.