Digital Technical Journal

This issue of the Digital Technical Journal focuses on the adoption and implementation of modern software process methods at Digital Equipment Corporation. It includes the following papers:

• Modeling the Cost of Software Quality: Presents a model for estimating quality costs based on SEI Capability Maturity Model (CMM) levels.
• Changing the Rules: A Pragmatic Approach to Product Development: Describes the collaborative, customer-focused approach used to develop the TeamLinks groupware product.
• Defining Global Requirements with Distributed QFD: Details how the Distributed Quality Function Deployment (DQFD) technique was used to manage product requirements across global sites.
• DEC TP WORKcenter: A Software Process Case Study: Analyzes the processes applied during the development of the DEC TP WORKcenter project.
• SEI-based Process Improvement Efforts at Digital: Discusses the application of the SEI framework and the experiences of organizations within Digital in improving process maturity.
• Assessing the Quality of OpenVMS AXP: Software Measurement Using Subjective Data: Explains how subjective data was used to assess quality in the absence of traditional objective metrics during the port of OpenVMS to the Alpha AXP platform.