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Best Practices for Software Maturity Improvement: A GÉANT Case Study

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Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2020)

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Maturity models for software indicate the key areas that contribute to quality improvements. They usually combine technical, organisational and human aspects relevant for effective software development, to focus the efforts and draw the direction for optimisations. In this paper, we present the process of defining best practices that support the GÉANT Software Maturity Model (GSMM), aligned to the needs of a distributed, innovation-driven, pan-European organisation. Based on the identification of specific goals relevant for GÉANT and a preliminary maturity assessment, we created a catalogue of best practices that help the software teams to attain the goals defined in the GSMM.

This work is part of a project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 856726 (GN4-3).

The scientific/academic work is financed from financial resources for science in the years 2019–2022 granted for the realisation of the international project co-financed by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

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  1. PSNC, Poznań, Poland

    Bartosz Walter & Marcin Wolski

  2. University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

    Branko Marović

  3. Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

    Ivan Garnizov

  4. AMRES, Belgrade, Serbia

    Andrijana Todosijevic

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Walter, B., Marović, B., Garnizov, I., Wolski, M., Todosijevic, A. (2020). Best Practices for Software Maturity Improvement: A GÉANT Case Study. In: Yilmaz, M., Niemann, J., Clarke, P., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1251. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56441-4_3

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