NEW DELHI: QAI India, an Indian IT consultant, along with SEI, have organized
a conference on Process Improvement, for the fourth year in succession. The SEPG
Conference on tour in Asia Pacific 2002, felicitates Infosys and Satyam for the
Best Practice and the Best Paper awards, respectively, for the year 2002. The
Best of the Best awards were presented to the authors/representative of the
practitioners at the SEPG Conference, the annual conference that brings together
thought leaders to exchange wisdom on software engineering excellence.
Best practice: Measuring and Improving Process Capabilities by Jyoti M Bhat
and Anoop Kumar, Infosys.
Best paper: Use of Statistical Process Control (SPC) in the Software Process:
An Experiential Learning at Satyam - by Rajesh Gupta, Satyam. This paper is the
case study of the use of SPC at Satyam.
SEI has taken cognizance that India is a staging center for process for the
entire Asian Pacific region, including Japan. To move closer to SEI's goal,
namely, taking Software Process Improvements (SPI) to new levels, a great deal
of sharing and cross-fertilization is required, wherein the mature India
companies have a significant role to play.
One of the initiatives aimed at accomplishing the objective, Best-of-the-Best
awards takes into account the very best practices including software process
excellence and innovation. A jury, which includes luminaries from the Indian
software industry and academia, short-lists the papers capturing these
practices. Finally the SEI selects two winners in the category of "Best
Paper" and "Best Practices."