Seija Komi-Sirviö

Toward a practical solution for capturing knowledge for software projects

Rarely has a professional field evolved as quickly as software development. Software organizations are continuously struggling to keep abreast of new technologies frequently changing customer requirements; and increasingly complex software architectures, methods, and tools. Recently, many organizations have come to understand that to succeed in the future, they must manage and use knowledge more effectively at individual, team, and organizational levels. Efficient creation, distribution, and reuse of up-to-date knowledge are critical success factors that unfortunately remain difficult to achieve in practice. Knowledge-sharing events between group members have proven to be a better way of sharing knowledge than the database, but the results of these events could never be packaged and reused for future projects. One companys solution was to develop a needs-based approach that would deliver knowledge just in time.

Practical Process Improvement for Embedded Real-Time Software

This article presents a practical total quality management (TQM) based approach to software process improvement known as PR2IMER (Practical Process Improvement for Embedded Real-time Software) which VTT Electronics has used successfully in more than 10 ..

Original software component manufacturing: survey of the State-of-the-Practice

This paper analyses the state-of-the-practice of software components produced in strategic partnerships. We call this kind of business original software component manufacturing (OCM), referring to the concept of original equipment manufacturing (OEM) that is well known in other industries. The analysis is mostly based on information acquired from Internet in Fall 2000, dealing with OCM supplier; brokering and buyer companies. Based on the analysis, the context of OCM is outlined and a suggestion made for further R&D activities.

Contexts of KM Based SPI: The Case of Software Design Experience Reuse

In this paper we will address some contextual issues related knowledge management based software process improvement (SPI). The research question emerged during the practical case study is what are the contexts of knowledge-based SPI and, furthermore, how to take them into account when planning improvements. By context we mean complex set of organisational structures, engineering and supportive processes, products, and relationships between them. We will first describe the case that provided us data for building the context model. We will then continue by illustrating and analysing the model from two viewpoints: the inner and the outer context. At the end of the paper we will draw conclusions and general remarks from the work done so far.