Information day on FP6 Budapest Tor Ulsund (abelia)

2 Who are we? Three research institutions –Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway (NTNU) –University of Oslo/Simula Research Laboratory –SINTEF Norwegian IT industry (25-30 companies through the last 6 years)

3 What have we done? The general position has been to downscale and make applicable approaches from several SPI frameworks, in particular QIP and TQM, and to apply these in concrete development projects called pilots (company projects) Our target group has mainly been SMEs, but also development departmets in large companies

4 Project model PlanCheck Development/implementation project Do Next company project Common projects (generalising) Company project (pilot project) Act Dissemination

5 The Norwegian SPI projects : SPIQ Software Process Improvement for better Quality : PROFIT PROcess improvement For IT industry : SPIKE Software Process Improvement based on Knowledge and Experience –focus on context dependent methodologies incremental and evolutionary methods including lightweight methods and RUP object oriented analysis and design electronic process guides knowledge management estimation and project steering – how to manage evolutionary projects

6 SPIKE PROFIT and SPIKE include a large international component –Cooperation with ESERNET, an EU-supported project –Cooperation with Fraunhofer Institute –Cooperation with University of Maryland –Several other international contacts with both companies and research institutions

7 EoI - MAturing Technologies for DIstributed, Business-critical Software Goal: to establish and maintain European leadership in distributed, business-critical software systems by providing European IT professionals and industry with up-to-date technology for developing and maintaining such systems. –Provide new and improved software processes –Provide appropriate and tailored technologies for such systems, e.g. architectures, component-based techniques, safety-critical methods, and risk/estimation models –Establish a European competence base of relevant technologies and processes, which are validated by applied research and empirical studies –Provide European organisations and IT professionals with the practical results gained –Solve specific technical and organizational challenges facing SMEs in this area

8 Participants in the EoI Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway SINTEF Telecom and Informatics, Norway Mogul, Norway Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Stotax, Germany CAS, Germany Thales, Norway (France) VTT, Finland University of Oulu, Finland MSG, Finland Nokia, Finland University of Lancaster, UK Q-Labs, Sweden University of Lund, Sweden Engineering, Italy Network Services, Italy University of Bari, Italy CMG, Netherlands NLR, Netherlands ATC, Greece University of Calgary, Canada

9 What do we want to address in Call 2? Methodologies for specification, construction and implementing systems as listed in Call 2. –the ”next generation” of methodologies –agile (lightweight) methods –necessary tools to support developers Open development platforms for software and services Improving risk management

10 Addresses