Transition Packages for Expediting Technology Adoption: The Prototype Requirements Management Transition Package.
Abstract
This report describes the experience of building and evaluating a prototype transition package for organizations implementing processes in support of the Requirements Management Key Process Area of the Software Engineering Institute's Software Capability Maturity Model(SM). This report also describes the theories that led to the project and states our conclusions based on evaluation and review of the prototype by users typical of the audience targeted for transition packages. Feedback from these users indicated that they were typical "early or late majority" adopters, and that they found the transition package helpful for orientation and education as pan of implementing requirements management practices in their organizations. We argue in this report that transition packages. as part of a complete "whole product" that includes training and consulting, can be an effective mechanism for expediting the diffusion, adoption, and implementation of important technologies. Finally, we describe what we now know about creating transition packages and how they might be used.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA353172
Entities
People
- Malcom Patrick
- Priscilla Fowler
Organizations
- Carnegie Mellon University