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Is Your Project Ready for Time-to-Market Focus?

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Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2002)

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There are many factors affecting the Time-To-Market (TTM) of a software project. A panel of experienced Finnish software professionals has produced an Excel-based questionnaire to gauge TTM-readiness of a software project. This paper studies not only the questionnaire but also the process of its construction, i.e. the means to capture expert knowledge in an intercompany cooperation network. The work has been based on the work done in the Esprit/PROFES project on Product-Process Dependencies. The emerging ISO 15504 standard was used as the framework for the questionnaire.

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  1. Solid Information Technology, Merimiehenkatu 36 D, FIN-00150, Helsinki, Finland

    Janne Järvinen

  2. Nokia Research Center, Itämerenkatu 11–13, FIN-00180, Finland

    Jouni Jartti

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  1. Department of Information Processing Science, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 3000, 90014, Oulun yliopisto, Finland

    Markku Oivo

  2. VTT Electronics, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, P.O. Box 1100, 90571, Oulu, Finland

    Seija Komi-Sirviö

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Järvinen, J., Jartti, J. (2002). Is Your Project Ready for Time-to-Market Focus?. In: Oivo, M., Komi-Sirviö, S. (eds) Product Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2559. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36209-6_18

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