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  Process Improvement and Quality Assurance
  Resource List / Links

The following resource list was originally compiled by Beth Gramoy of the Navy's SEPO/SPAWAR and updated by Sheri Clark and Fritz Eberle:

•   WEB SITES

• DOCUMENTS

•    University of Arizona & Sandia Labs: What is Systems Engineering?

    http://www.sie.arizona.edu/sysengr/whatis/index.html

•    INCOSE Systems Engineering Journal

    http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jtoc?ID=39084

•    INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook

    http://www.incose.org/pubslist.html

•    INCOSE Metrics Primer

    http://www.incose.org/pubslist.html 

•    DoD Guide to Integrated Product and Process Development

    http://www.acq.osd.mil/te/survey/table_of_contents.html

•    NASA Systems Engineering Handbook

    http://sed.gsfc.nasa.gov/R/Res-Guidelines.html

•   BOOKS

•     The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas

•     Personal Software Process by Watts Humphrey

•     The Six Sigma Revolution by George Eckes

•     ISO 9000 Quality Systems Handbook by David Hoyle

    •     Campanella, J. (ed.), Principles of Quality Costs, Second Edition, ASQ Quality Press, 1990.

    •     Crosby, P., Quality is Free, McGraw-Hill, 1979.

    •     Deming, W. E., Out of the Crisis, MIT Press, 1986.

    •     Pressman, Roger S., Software Engineering: A Practitioner’s Approach, Fourth Edition, McGraw-Hill, 1997

    •     Senge, P. et al, The Dance of Change, Doubleday, 1999

    •     Tague, N.R., The Quality Toolbox, American Society for Quality, 1995.

    •     Frank, B. et al, Certified Software Quality Engineer Primer, Quality Council of Indiana (QQI), 1996.

    •     Higgins, J.M., 101 Creative Problem Solving Techniques: The Handbook of New Ideas for Business, New Management, 1994.

•  TOOLS

•      INCOSE Tools Database working group 

            http://www.incose.org/tools/index.html

•      SE Tool Surveys

Requirements Management Tools Survey
Systems Architecture Tools Survey
Measurement Tools Survey
Vendors who have responded to previous surveys

•      SE Tool Databases

Tools Database by Name
Tools Database by Vendor
SE Tools by Taxonomy
Tools Database by IMPIG Taxonomy
Tools Database by EIA-632 Taxonomy (tools categorized by EIA-632 requirement)
Tools Database by IEEE-1220 Taxonomy

•      NASA Tool Inventory - Goddard Space Flight Center

http://joy.gsfc.nasa.gov/MSEE/mseehome.htm

 

•  STANDARDS

•       EIA-632 Processes for Engineering a System, Dec 1998

http://global.ihs.com  or via
https://iweb.spawar.navy.mil/services/sti/library/libresources.html

•      EIA/IS-731 Systems Engineering Capability Model, Dec 1998 (being phased out in favor of CMMI)

http://global.ihs.com  or via
https://iweb.spawar.navy.mil/services/sti/library/libresources.html

•      Capability Maturity Model Integration – Systems Engineering/Software Engineering, V1.02, 4 Dec 2000

http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cmmi/products/models.html

•      IEEE 1220 Application and Management of the Systems Engineering Process,1998

http://shop.ieee.org/store/HelpDesk/standards.asp  or via https://iweb.spawar.navy.mil/services/sti/library/libresources.html

•    IEEE/EIA 12207 Software Life Cycle Processes

•    Department of Defense (DOD) MIL-STD-2168A (Draft), March 1992

•    IEEE Standard for Software Quality Assurance Plans (IEEE Std 730-1998)

•    IEEE Guide for Software Quality Assurance Planning (IEEE Std 730.1-1995)

•    ISO 9000:2000, Quality Management Systems – Fundamentals and Vocabulary, ASQ, 2000

•    ISO 9000-3, Guidelines for the Application of ISO 9001:1994 to the Development, Supply, Installation, and Maintenance of Computer Software

•    ISO 9001:2000, Quality Management Systems – Requirements, ASQ, 2000

•    ISO 9004:2000, Quality Management Systems – Guidelines for Performance Improvements, ASQ, 2000

•    SSC San Diego PAL: http://sepo.spawar.navy.mil/sepo/Standards.html    
 

•   Bodies of Knowledge:

•    Engineering Management Book of Knowledge (EMBOK)

•    IEEE Engineering Mgmt Society project

•    Project Management Institute (PMI) Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK)    http://www.pmi.org/publictn/pmboktoc.htm

•    Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWBOK) http://www.SWEBOK.org

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