Business-oriented software process improvement based on CMM using QFD

Software Process Improvement and Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 573-589

  Liu, Xiaoqing ^a   Sun, Yan ^a   Kane, Gautam ^a   Kyoya, Yuji ^b   Noguchi, Kunio ^b  

^a University of Missouri Rolla   (United States)

^b TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Action plans; Capability maturity model; Prioritization; Quality function deployment; Relationship matrix; Software process improvement

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

ACTION PLANS; CAPABILITY MATURITY MODELS (CMM); PRIORITIZATION; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENTS; RELATIONSHIP MATRIX; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33845939841     PISSN: 10774866     EISSN: 10991670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spip.295     Document Type: Article

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