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This paper describes Prospect, a systematic approach to software process elicitation, and its validation in an industrial environment. Descriptive process models are important assets in software process improvement. A survey of the state of practice indicates that software process models are insufficient in quality, the models are developed in an uneconomic way, and the success of modeling activities depends largely on the Process Engineer’s experience. We present the results of an empirical study to show that Prospect circumvents these problems.
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Becker-Kornstaedt, U., Neu, H. (2003). Empirical Validation of the Prospect Method for Systematic Software Process Elicitation. In: Oquendo, F. (eds) Software Process Technology. EWSPT 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2786. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45189-1_2
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