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A lightweight assessment method for medical device software processes
(2014)
McCaffery, Fergal; Clarke, Paul; Lepmets, Marion
A lightweight assessment method for medical device software processes
(2014)
McCaffery, Fergal; Clarke, Paul; Lepmets, Marion
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This paper outlines the MDevSPICE-Adept process assessment method. MDevSPICE-Adept is a lightweight process assessment method that has been created for the MDevSPICE software process assessment model which is currently being developed for the medical device industry. MDevSPICE is a fully validated release of a medical device software process assessment model (formerly known as Medi SPICE), which was developed by the authors. While the MDevSPICE process assessment model is detailed and comprehensive, there is industry demand for a lightweight medical device software process assessment method. To address this requirement the MDevSPICE-Adept method has been developed. Details on how this has taken place and the procedures for implementing an MDevSPICE-Adept process assessment are presented. Information is also provided regarding how an MDevSPICE process assessment was undertaken in an Irish based medical device company. A summary of the issues identified from this process assessment an...
http://doras.dcu.ie/21090/
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A Scrumban integrated gamification approach to guide software process improvement: a Turkish case study
(2016)
Yilmaz, Murat; O'Connor, Rory
A Scrumban integrated gamification approach to guide software process improvement: a Turkish case study
(2016)
Yilmaz, Murat; O'Connor, Rory
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In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in tailoring agile development methodologies by combining different agile practices. The adoption of such a balancing approach requires a systematic customization of best practices among agile methodologies. This paper presents an empirical case study for adopting a hybrid Scrumban methodology with an integrated gamification approach, which was conducted in the context of a small-medium enterprise (SME). First, we conducted a focus group to better understand the potential inquiries that might have been useful to improve the development process. Secondly, we employed a cross-sectional survey approach to explore the company personnel’s opinions regarding the changes in the process. The survey data was collected from 30 practitioners who were working for the same project in a software development organization in a technology research centre. The descriptive statistics were calculated with paired sample t-tests being used to compare...
http://doras.dcu.ie/21097/
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A standard-based framework to integrate software work in small settings
(2017)
Sanchez-Gordon, Mary-Luz; de Amescua, Antonio; O'Connor, Rory; Larrucea, Xabier
A standard-based framework to integrate software work in small settings
(2017)
Sanchez-Gordon, Mary-Luz; de Amescua, Antonio; O'Connor, Rory; Larrucea, Xabier
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Small software companies have to work hard in order to survive. They usually find it challenging to spend time and effort on improving there operations and processes. Therefore, it is important to address such needs by the introduction of a proposed framework that specifies ways of getting things done while consciously encourage them to enhance their ability to improve. Although there are many software process improvement approaches, none of them address the human factors of small companies in a comprehensive and holistic way. Samay is a proposed framework to integrate human factors in the daily work as a way to deal with that challenge. This study suggests managing human factors but pointing out the software process life cycle. The purpose is to converge toward a continuous improvement by means of alternative mechanisms that impact on people. This framework was developed based upon reviews of relevant standards (such as ISO/IEC 29110, ISO 10018, OMG Essence and ISO/IEC 33014) and...
http://doras.dcu.ie/21797/
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An empirical examination of the extent of software process improvement in software SMEs
(2013)
Clarke, Paul; O'Connor, Rory
An empirical examination of the extent of software process improvement in software SMEs
(2013)
Clarke, Paul; O'Connor, Rory
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Although earlier studies revealed much about software process improvement (SPI) in Small- to Medium-sized Enterprises (software SMEs), no earlier research set out to determine the full extent of SPI being implemented in software SMEs. Therefore, this study was designed from the outset to elicit all instances of SPI, which we term SPI events – no matter how small or informal. We make the important new discovery that SMEs initiate a considerable amount of SPI, albeit in varying quantities in different organisations. No earlier study reported that the practice of SPI was so widespread in software SMEs, and this is perhaps related to the extensive scope of the enquiry adopted in this study. Our study also finds that the significant majority of SPI in software SMEs is minor or moderate in nature, sometimes leveraging the human capital via improvements in tacit knowledge. Software development is an intrinsically human intensive activity and it therefore follows that the maximisation of th...
http://doras.dcu.ie/19360/
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An innovative approach in developing standard professionals by involving software engineering students in implementing and improving international standards
(2014)
Laporte, Claude; O'Connor, Rory; García Paucar, Luis Hernán; Gerançon, Bruel
An innovative approach in developing standard professionals by involving software engineering students in implementing and improving international standards
(2014)
Laporte, Claude; O'Connor, Rory; García Paucar, Luis Hernán; Gerançon, Bruel
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One way to develop standards professionals is by having professional graduate students involved in the application and improvement of international standards. At the École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), a 7,500-student engineering school of Montréal, International Software Engineering Standards are introduced and used in Software Quality Assurance and Software Process Improvement courses and industrial projects conducted by graduate professional software engineering and IT students. These 2 course include an intervention where teams of students have to do a project with local organizations as well as tailoring International software engineering standards such as the new set of ISO/IEC 29110 standards and freely available guides targeted at very small enterprises and software development groups. Three projects, conducted by graduate professional students, i.e. graduate students working full time in an organization, using the new ISO/IEC 29110 are presented as well as a cost and ben...
http://doras.dcu.ie/20093/
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Exploring the use of the Cynefin Framework to inform software development approach decisions
(2015)
O'Connor, Rory; Marion, Lepmets
Exploring the use of the Cynefin Framework to inform software development approach decisions
(2015)
O'Connor, Rory; Marion, Lepmets
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Choosing an appropriate software development process is a complex and challenging task, exacerbated by the fact that all process models require a certain amount of tailoring to fit to the business environment of any specific organization in which the model is to be deployed. This position paper proposes that one of the potentially most significant factors impacting how a team should structure their software development process is domain (contexts defined by the nature of the relationship between cause and effect) the team is in, an approach pioneered by Snowden with The Cynefin Framework. Cynefin (pronounced Ku-nev-in) is a decision framework that recognizes the causal differences that exist between different types of systems and proposes new approaches to decision making in complex social environments and new mechanisms of understanding levels of complexity as decisions are made. It is argued that using the Cynefin framework for classifying important software process selection deci...
http://doras.dcu.ie/20770/
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Ignoring ‘best practice’: Why Irish software SMEs are rejecting CMMI and ISO 9000
(2009)
O'Connor, Rory; Coleman, Gerry
Ignoring ‘best practice’: Why Irish software SMEs are rejecting CMMI and ISO 9000
(2009)
O'Connor, Rory; Coleman, Gerry
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Software Process Improvement (SPI) ‘best practice’ models such as ISO 9000 and the Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI) have been developed to assist software development organisations by harnessing their experience and providing them with support so that they can produce software products on time, within budget and to a high level of quality. However there is increasing evidence that these models are not being adopted by Small to Medium sized Enterprises (SME) and primarily remain the remit of large organisations. This paper presents the results of a Grounded Theory study into why Irish SME software product companies are not using these SPI models. The key inhibiting factor found was the issue of cost. We discuss the findings in relation to cost of process and the factors affecting it, including bureaucracy, documentation, communication, tacit knowledge and organisational creativity and flexibility, and the associated impact on the adoption of SPI best practice models.
http://doras.dcu.ie/16739/
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Investigating software process in practice: a grounded theory perspective
(2006)
Coleman, Gerry
Investigating software process in practice: a grounded theory perspective
(2006)
Coleman, Gerry
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This thesis is concerned with how software process and software process improvement is practiced within the indigenous Irish software product industry. Using the grounded theory methodology, the study utilises in-depth interviews to examine the attitude and perceptions of practitioners towards software process and software process improvement. The outcome of the work is a theory, grounded in the field data, that explains how software processes are formed and evolve, and when and why software process improvement is undertaken. The resultant grounded theory is based on two conceptual themes, Process Formation and Process Evolution, and one core theoretical category, Cost of Process. The empirical investigation shows that software process improvement programmes are implemented by companies as a reaction to business events, and how many software managers reject software process improvement because o f the associated costs. In addition, indigenous Irish software companies largely ignore...
http://doras.dcu.ie/17296/
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Investigating the relationship between software process improvement, situational change, and business success in software SMEs
(2012)
Clarke, Paul
Investigating the relationship between software process improvement, situational change, and business success in software SMEs
(2012)
Clarke, Paul
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While we have learned a great deal from Software Process Improvement (SPI) research to date, no earlier study has been designed from the outset to examine the relationship between SPI and business success in software development small- to- medium- sized companies (software SMEs). Since business processes are generally acknowledged as having an important role to play in supporting business success, it follows that the software development process (a large and complex component of the overall business process) has an important contribution to make in supporting business success in software development companies. However, to date we have very little evidence regarding the role of SPI in supporting business success, especially for software SMEs. The need for SPI is dependent on the extent of situational change in a software development setting, and therefore any examination of the relationship between SPI and business success would be deficient if it did not also examine the extent of ...
http://doras.dcu.ie/17263/
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MDevSPICE - A comprehensive solution for manufacturers and assessors of safety-critical medical device software
(2014)
Clarke, Paul; Lepmets, Marion; McCaffery, Fergal; Finnegan, Anita
MDevSPICE - A comprehensive solution for manufacturers and assessors of safety-critical medical device software
(2014)
Clarke, Paul; Lepmets, Marion; McCaffery, Fergal; Finnegan, Anita
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Software development is frequently challenged with quality concerns. One of the primary reasons for such issues is the very nature of the software development process. First, it can be difficult to accurately and completely identify the requirements for a software development product. Also, the implementation on various platforms and the need to integrate with sometimes unforeseeable additional systems adds complexity. For safety critical domains, such as the medical device and healthcare sectors, these hurdles are amplified. Whereas a failure in a desktop application may be resolved through a restart with no harm incurred, a failure in a medical device can have life threatening consequences. Our work in the Regulated Software Research Centre (RSRC) aims to support medical device producers in the production of safer medical device software. In this paper, we describe the MDevSPICE framework and how it addresses the safety concerns faced by medical device producers.
http://doras.dcu.ie/21089/
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Safety critical software process assessment: how MDevSPICE® addresses the challenge of integrating compliance and capability
(2015)
Clarke, Paul; Lepmets, Marion; Dorling, Alec; McCaffery, Fergal
Safety critical software process assessment: how MDevSPICE® addresses the challenge of integrating compliance and capability
(2015)
Clarke, Paul; Lepmets, Marion; Dorling, Alec; McCaffery, Fergal
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One of the primary outcomes of a software process assessment is visibility of the capability of a software process which among other things, informs us of the ability of a process to deliver consistent product quality levels. In safety critical domains, such as the medical device sector, high product quality – and particularly high product safety - is an important consideration. To address this safety concern, the medical device sector traditionally employs audits to determine compliance to software process standards and guidance. Unlike an audit which results in a pass/fail outcome, an assessment provides a process capability profile which identifies areas for improvement and enables a comparison with broader best practice. MDevSPICE® integrates the various medical device software standards and guidance within the infrastructure of a SPICE assessment model, thus encompassing aspects of compliance and capability. This paper describes some of the key enablers of this integration.
http://doras.dcu.ie/21088/
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The influence of managerial experience and style on software development process
(2008)
Coleman, Gerry; O'Connor, Rory
The influence of managerial experience and style on software development process
(2008)
Coleman, Gerry; O'Connor, Rory
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This paper presents the results of a study of how software process and software process improvement is applied in actual practice in the software industry using the indigenous Irish software product industry as a test-bed. This study focuses on the role and influence of both the Company Founder and the Software Development Manager on the initial formation of software development process practices. The results of this study contain useful lessons for software entrepreneurs who need to make decisions about process and process change within their organisations as they grow.
http://doras.dcu.ie/18658/
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Understanding the gap between software process practices and actual practice in very small companies
(2016)
Sanchez-Gordon, Mary-Luz; O'Connor, Rory
Understanding the gap between software process practices and actual practice in very small companies
(2016)
Sanchez-Gordon, Mary-Luz; O'Connor, Rory
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This paper reports on a grounded theory to study into software developers’ use of software development process in actual practice in the specific context of very small companies. This study was conducted in three very small software product companies located in Ecuador. The data collection was based on semi-structured qualitative interviews with software project managers, focus group with software developers and was supplemented by literature and documents studies. We interviewed two types of participants (managers and developers), so as to ensure that we elicited a holistic perspective of how they approached the software development process in actual practice. The goal was to study what practices are actually used and their opinion and attitude towards the potential adopting of an international standard (ISO/IEC 29110) specifically designed for very small companies. With the collected data we performed an analysis utilizing Grounded Theory coding techniques, as this methodology pro...
http://doras.dcu.ie/21429/
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