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Process Uses:
- Facilitate Human Understanding and Communication
requires that a group be able to share a common representational format.
- Represent process in form understandable by humans.
- Enable communication about and agreement on software processes.
- Formalize the process so that people can work together more efficiently.
- Provide sufficient information to allow an individual or team to perform the intended process.
- Form a basis for training the intended process.
- Support Process Improvement:
requires a basis for defining and analysing processes.
- Identify all the necessary components of a high-yield software development or maintenance process.
- Reuse well-defined and effective software process on future projects.
- Compare alternative software process.
- Estimate the impacts of potential changes to a software process without first putting them unto actual practice.
- Assist in the selection and incorporation of technology (e.g. tools) into a process.
- Facilitate organizational learning regarding effective software processs.
- Support managed evolution of a process.
- Support Process Management:
requires a defined process against which actual project behaviours can be compared.
- Develop a project-specific software process to accomodate the attributes of a particular project, such as its product, or organizational environment.
- Reason about attributes of software creation or evolution.
- Suport development of plans for the project (forecasting).
- Monitor, manage, and coordinate the process.
- Provide a basis for measurement, such as definition of measurement points within the context of a specific process.
- Automate Process Guidance in Performing Process:
requires automated tools for manioulating process descriptions.
- Define an effective software development environment.
- Provide guidance, suggestions, and reference material to facilitate human performance of the intended process.
- Retain reusable process representation in a repository.
- Automate Execution Support:
requires a computaional basis for controlling behaviour within an automated environment.
- Automate portions of the process.
- Support cooperative work among individuals and teams by automating the process.
- Automatically collect measurement data reflecting actual experience with a process.
- Enforce rules to ensure process integrity.
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