Throughout the software industry there are a lot of great ideas and knowledge available about how to effectively develop software. Nowadays, development teams need and have access to a wide range of information. Not only do they need to acquire detailed information about specific development technologies such as Java, Java EE, Eclipse, SOA technologies, .NET, as well as various development and tool environments, but they also need to figure out how to organize their work along modern development best practices such as agile, iterative, architecture-centric, risk- and quality-driven softwaredevelopment.
Some problems development organizations face when they leave their developers to find such information for themselves are:
* team members will not have centralized and easy access to the same body of information when they need it, i.e., different developers might rely on different sources and versions of the same information;
* it is difficult to combine and integrate content and development processes that are made available in their own proprietary format, as every book and publication presents method content and process using a different representation and presentation style;
* it is hard to define an organized and systematic development approach that is right-sized to their needs, i.e., addresses their specific culture, standardized practices, and compliance requirements.
The Software and Systems Process Engineering Meta-model (SPEM) is a process engineering meta-model as well as conceptual framework, which can provide the necessary concepts for modeling, documenting, presenting, managing, interchanging, and enacting development methods and processes.
An implementation of this meta-model would be targeted at process engineers, project leads, project and program managers who are responsible for maintaining and implementing processes for their development organizations or individual projects.
Reference: SPEM Specification version 2.0
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We know why projects fail, we know how to prevent their failure, so why do they still fail? Martin Cobb
