Informatisches Kolloquium Sommersemester 2007
Montag, 9. Juli 2007
Jan Pries-Heje
IT University Copenhagen,
Dänemark
The ImprovAbility Model — Improving Our Ability to Improve
Too many improvement and innovation projects fail. We have studied characteristics of successful and failed projects. From this study, we derived 20 parameters that influence success and failure and used those parameters to build an Improvement Ability (ImprovAbility) Model, which is a model that can be used to measure an organization's or project's ability to succeed with improvement. After having built the ImprovAbility Model, we tested it in real life, learned from the experience, and improved the model. Further tests showed promising results. In this presentation I report on the considerations and research behind ImprovAbility. Finally, I describe the method and how the model can be used in practice in software developing organisations.
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