Adaptive Process Improvement Approaches

There are many practices for organizational process improvement in order to achieve various business objectives. Most of such take form of time capped initiatives or drives to bring focus & energy. These intense team efforts are characterized by implementation of guidance based on standard process reference models. It is observed that majority of the cases, though the intent starts from business objectives, most of the processes outcomes and evidences start aligning to requirements of standards, than business impact so are not sustained. This paper compares summary of existing popular methodologies and proposes few mix-n-match approaches to bring process performance closer to ongoing business goals and objectives. Also discussed are related topics: keeping the processes lightweight & dynamic, leveraging simple tools & techniques, re-calibrating the processes based on changing business trends and importance of teamwork (people & passion). Though majority of this observation is based on automotive, can be applied across industries.

Authors and Affiliations

1. Infiniti, Bangalore, India

   Ravindra Joshi

Editors and Affiliations

1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of the Balearic Islands, Cra. de Valldemossa, km 7.5, 07122, Palma de Mallorca (Illes Balears), Spain

   Antonia Mas  & Antoni Mesquida  & 

2. Software Quality Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

   Terry Rout

3. Lero, the Irish Software Engineering, Research Centre, Dublin City University, School of Computing, Dublin, Ireland

   Rory V. O’Connor

4. InterSPICE Ltd, 23 King Street, CB1 1AH, Cambridge, UK

   Alec Dorling

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