Metric-Based Project and Process Management
External cooperation: Generali Informatik Services
Solid and well engineered processes are the basement of successful software development projects. The outer constraints for project businesses however are constantly changing, so the processes need to adjust. Also processes should be continuously mined for improvements. The key questions are, if the underlying processes need some adjustments and if so, what parts of the processes need to change.
To answer the first question, it is inevitable to constantly measure the projects and their results - the products. Therefore the Research Group Software Construction is developing a metric based quality model for software developing processes in close cooperation with Generali Deutschland Informatik Services. Applying this model should allow to assess and to improve the underlying processes. Using this knowledge another goal is to incrementally build a repository of process-adjustments that are in accordance with established models such as CMMI or SixSigma. This repository can then be mined using dedicated metrics and other input parameters to support the optimization of the processes and by that answering the second question above.