| | |  | Lean Six Sigma | Home » » » » Practical Support for Lean Six Sigma Software Process Definition Using IEEE Software Engineering Standards | | | | | | | Description: | | Practical Support for Lean Six Sigma Software Process Definition: Using IEEE Software Engineering Standards addresses the task of meeting the specific documentation requirements in support of Lean Six Sigma. This book provides a set of templates supporting the documentation required for basic software project control and management and covers the integration of these templates for their entire product development life cycle. Find detailed documentation guidance in the form of organizational policy descriptions, integrated set of deployable document templates, artifacts required in support of assessment, organizational delineation of process documentation. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Susan K. Land | | Paperback:
| 412 pages | | Publisher:
| Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press | | Publication Date:
| June 01, 2008 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0470170808 | | Product Length:
| 7.03 inches | | Product Width:
| 0.81 inches | | Product Height:
| 10.06 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.68 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.9 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.8 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.9 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.6 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
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Helpful Practical AdviceApr 20, 2009
By Ralph R. Young
This book is a superb guide for software engineering practitioners who are responsible for producing process documentation, work products, and artifacts.
The authors correctly emphasize the need for an organization to have: First (and critical), senior leader support of organizational change management; Secondly, a strong implementation of systems and software engineering practices that is based on industry standards and best practices; Thirdly, a commonly understood and used development approach; and finally, defined and documented processes that can be further improved. In other words, Lean Six Sigma should not be "snatched-up" as a fad to exemplify an organizations' forward-lookingness; rather, it should be utilized to refine and continuously improve a mature project or organization.
The authors provide a rich set of checklists, document templates, and examples of work products. For example, one of the key challenges for any project is to identify and manage risks effectively. The authors provide a risk management plan template, risk taxonomy, a questionnaire to help identify and categorize risks, a sample risk action request, a outline for a risk mitigation plan, and a sample risk matrix that addresses the probability of the risk and its severity--one can readily see how use of this book could save a project and an organization a lot of work and expense through reuse of industry terminology, definitions, standards, best practices, and processes.
The application of Six Sigma builds on risk management and problem identification and resolution. The Lean Six Sigma approach combines quality guidance with a process-based approach. The authors recommend that a robust management and process measurement approach (such as ISO 9001 or the CMMI-DEV framework) is a prerequisite.
One of the advantages of this book is that it provides a straight-forward description of many technical areas, allowing the reader to evaluate the potential use of a technique in a particular setting. Another advantage is that the book is written for projects of all sizes--the authors emphasize that Lean Six Sigma provides an ideal model for improving the processes and practices associated with smaller software development efforts. A third advantage is that simple explanations of quality improvement tools and techniques are provided, enabling the reader (and his or her project or organization) to implement, deploy, and institutionalize them easily.
The accompanying CD-ROM provides templates for a variety of processes, including acquisition, configuration management, project planning, development, continuous improvement, quality assurance, training, validation, verification, and Lean Six Sigma. The templates are in MSWord and can be downloaded, tailored, and used!
A rich and up-to-date set of references is provided. Readers will appreciate the detailed index. An appendix provides brief abstracts of IEEE and ISO/IEC standards, enabling the reader to quickly identify the one that is needed.
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