Comprehensive SPICE-based model for assessing and evaluating reuse practices in systems engineering for organizations or companies.


Motivation 

Current process reference models do not explicitley consider reuse in a comprehensive way. Typically, in a systems engineering context, an organization must be capable to invent reusable artificats but must also be capable to systematically reuse these artifacts during the development of systems or individual solutions.
The aim of the project is to develop a method that facilitates the assessment of engineering departments or companies regarding reusability. The emphasis is not only on developing and testing an assessment method that allows to classify engineering organizations accordinig to their reusability maturity, but also to develop a methodological framework to enhance the reusability maturity of an engineering organization.

Goals

  • Development of an assessment method for measuring reuse in industrial engineering
  • The structure of the reference model allows integration in establihsed process assessment methods like ISO/IEC 15504

Results

  • An ISO/IEC 15504 conformant process reference model for reuse in industrial engineering
  • A ready-to-use interview and assessment toolkit for assessing reuse in industrial engineering

Partners: Siemens Corporate Technology, SCCH

Contact: Reinhold Plösch

 

Reuse in Globally Distributed Engineering (GDES-Reuse)

Publications

F. Stallinger, R. Neumann, J. Vollman, R. Plösch: Reuse and Product-orientation as Key Elements for Systems Engineering: Aligning a Reference Model for the Industrial Solutions Business with ISO/IEC 15288, Proceeding of the International Conference on Software and Systems Process (ICSSP 2011), David Raffo, Dietmar Pfahl and Li Zhang (eds.), Waikiki, Honolulu, HI, USA, May 21-22, 2011, ACM ISBN: 978-1-4503-0730-7, pp. 120-128, doi:10.1145/1987875.1987896
Conference Article
F. Stallinger, J. Vollmar, R. Neumann, R. Plösch: Assessing Reuse Maturity in Complex Systems Engineering Contexts: Experiences and Results from the Industrial Engineering Domain, In: Terry Rout, Guiseppe Lami, Fabrizio Fabbrini (Eds.): Process Improvement and Capability Determination in Software, Systems Engineering and Service Management, Proceedings of: 10th International SPICE Conference 2010, Pisa, Italy, 18-20 May 2010, Edizi.
Conference Article
F. Stallinger, R. Neumann, J. Vollmar, R. Plösch: Towards a Process Reference Model for the Industrial Solutions Business: Integrating Reuse and Product-orientation in the Context of Systems Engineering, In: Terry Rout, Guiseppe Lami, Fabrizio Fabbrini (Eds.): Process Improvement and Capability Determination in Software, Systems Engineering and Service Management, Proceedings of: 10th International SPICE Conference 2010, Pisa, Italy, 18-20 May 2010, Edizi.
Conference Article
F. Stallinger, R. Plösch, G. Pomberger, J. Vollmar: Integrating ISO/IEC 15504 Conformant Process Assessment and Organizational Reuse Enhancement, published in Software Process: Improvement and Practice, published online September 2009, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2009, doi:10.1002/spip.443
Journal Article
F. Stallinger, R. Plösch, G. Pomberger, J. Vollmar: Bridging the Gap between ISO/IEC 15504 Conformant Process Assessment and Organizational Reuse Enhancement, Proceedings of 9th International SPICE 2009 conference, Turku, Finland, June 2009, TUCS General Publication No 54, May 2009, pp. 7-14, ISBN 978-952-12-2287-0, ISSN 1239-1905.
Conference Article
F. Stallinger, R. Plösch, H. Prähofer, S. Prummer, J. Vollmar: A Process Reference Model for Reuse in Industrial Engineering: Enhancing the ISO/IEC 15504 Framework to Cope with Organizational Reuse Maturity, Proceedings of the SPICE 2006 conference, Luxembourg, May 4-5, 2006.
Conference Article