Links to Web Sites Specializing in Process Improvement

The Education Process Improvement Center provides continuing process improvement methodologies and procedures, and the service to perform them, for educational institutions. Our goal is to supply the means for schools to improve both their curriculum development processes and their administrative functions. A secondary goal is to seamlessly include advanced technologies in the schools as educational and administrative tools, as appropriate.

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SPIN is a leadership forum for the free and open exchange of software process improvement experiences and practical ideas. We promote achieving higher levels of process maturity, software quality, and mutual respect. Our goal is to help sustain commitment and enhance skills through an active program of networking, publications, recognition of excellence, and mutual support.

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Software Process
Improvement and Capability
dEtermination
is a major international initiative to support the development of an International Standard for Software Process Assessment. The project has three principal goals:

SPICE to develop a working draft for a standard for software process assessment.
to conduct industry trials of the emerging standard.
to promote the technology transfer of software process assessment into the software industry world-wide.

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The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is a federally funded research and development center established in 1984 by the U.S. Department of Defense with a broad charter to address the transition of software engineering technology.

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The Software Engineering Laboratory (SEL) is an organization sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA/GSFC) and created to investigate the effectiveness of software engineering technologies when applied to the development of applications software. The SEL was created in 1976 and has three primary organizational members:

NASA/GSFC, Software Engineering Branch
University of Maryland, Department of Computer Science
Computer Sciences Corporation, Space and Earth Technology Systems

The goals of the SEL are:

to understand the software development process in the GSFC environment;

to measure the effects of various methodologies, tools, and models on this process;

to identify and then to apply successful development practices.

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