Technology transfer macro-process. A practical guide for the effective introduction of technology

In our efforts to increase software development productivity, we have worked to introduce numerous software development techniques and technologies into various target organizations. Through these efforts, we have come to understand the difficulties involved in technical transfer. Some of the major hurdles that these organizations face during technical transfers are tight schedules and budgets. We have made efforts to lighten this load by using various customization techniques and have defined an overall process called the "technology transfer macro-process" that we can use to introduce a wide variety of software development techniques and technologies into a target organization. This paper introduces this simple and practical process, along with important methods and concepts, such as the "process plug-in method" and the "process warehouse", for the introduction of new tools, technologies and processes within an organization. The issue of initial productivity loss is also discussed, and a suggestion on how to avoid this is made. These methods have been successfully used to introduce object-oriented technology (OOT) into actual development projects and have helped to increase overall productivity within the target development organizations.