Handbooks

Process Impact offers the following handbooks written by Karl Wiegers (view license terms):

Software Process Improvement Handbook: A Practical Guide

Unless you can honestly say, "I am building software today as well as software can ever be built," you should always be trying to improve your personal and your team's software development and project management capabilities. This 72-page handbook addresses many issues that can help software organizations implement and sustain a successful process improvement program. Whether you're using the CMM or CMMI as a process improvement framework, or just trying to learn how to work more effectively, you'll find a wealth of pragmatic guidance and useful insights about how to steer your organization toward better productivity and quality. The handbook contains seven chapters:

Why Is Process Improvement So Hard?
An Effective Process Improvement Approach
Personal Process Improvement
Process Improvement Traps to Avoid
Creating a Process Assets Library
Molding the CMM to Your Organization
A Modular Mini-Assessment Method

Other handbook features include:

7 worksheets so you can begin applying these techniques to your own project immediately
Process Improvement Strategic Plan Template and Action Planning Template
10 process improvement one-liners
A glossary of process improvement terms
Many true stories from actual project experiences

Handbook Table of Contents
Introduction and Chapter 1, Why Is Process Improvement So Hard?

Pricing and Ordering Information

	Single copy (PDF, delivered by email as a Zip file within 24 hours): $30
	Corporate or government agency site license: $500
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Handbook License Terms

The handbooks are delivered electronically. The original customer may print the handbook for his own use. Usage permissions are the same as those for regular hardcopy books: you own one copy of the handbook, you may lend that copy to others, but only one person at a time may have that copy in his possession. The original customer may not distribute additional copies of the handbook in either hardcopy or electronic form, including posting on servers or Web sites. Purchase of a site license allows duplication of an unlimited number of copies for the corporate site or government agency, including printing hardcopies, electronic distribution, and posting on servers or intranets accessible only to members of the purchasing organization.

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Last Modified: Saturday, 05-Jan-2008 14:48:19 EST