"An Overview of SPICE's Model for Process Management"

A suite of standards for software process assessment is being developed by ISO/IEC under the SPICE project. The intent is to harmonize the different efforts around the world to manage the software process. One of the SPICE products is a model for good software engineering and management practices, called the Baseline Practices Guide, which is similar to the SEI’s Capability Maturity ModelSM (CMM) and Northern Telecom/BNR's Trillium. In this paper, we give an overview of the SPICE Project and in particular, the Baseline Practices Guide.