Lessons from Industrial Adoption of Software Engineering Practices
Robert B. Grady · 1996
Industrial adoption of software engineering practices can take years and academia needs to help speed up this process. The challenge that industry faces in widely adopting just one of these practices software inspections is traced through over 15 years of company-wide experience at Hewlett-Packard. Four historical stages give insight into many lessons learned within HP and elsewhere. Each period is illustrated with some of the most successful techniques learned so far, as well as some of the mistakes that were made and the lessons learned. Finally, a model that HP is currently using to measure and track adoption is given and it shows our current approach to accelerating continued inspection process improvements. The final challenge is: what do these industrial lessons mean to educators and what should they do to heip speed up the adoption of the best practices?