Software process improvement by object technology (ESSI PIE 27785-SPOT)

The paper describes the on-going experience of Calio Informatica Srl in a process improvement experiment (PIE) project sponsored by the community´s ESSI (European Systems and Software Initiative) program. The experiment concerns the improvement of two primary software life cycle (SLC) processes, namely analysis and design, by adopting object oriented technology, and in particular the UML method. Rational Rose is the technology which is supporting the improvement. The PIE is being done on top of a strategic baseline project, being deployed by Calio Informatica in the business domain of enterprise management applications. The main benefits achieved concern: increased professional skills and technical capability of Calio´s personnel; achievement of higher customer satisfaction; better resource allocation in software projects; improvement of product quality and robustness, because of better modularization and structuring; set up of a reusable software components library