LIDs

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LIDs stands for Light-Weight Documentation of Experiences and is a model for systematic software process improvement . It was developed in the DaimlerChrysler Software Experience Center. With this approach, the experiences of the members of software projects are collected and documented immediately after their end ( post-mortem analysis ) so that they can be reused in other projects.

In contrast to more weighty approaches such as the Experience Base and the Capability Maturity Model , the effort involved in documenting experiences is deliberately kept low. The process is neither technically nor financially complex. It also doesn't require expensive tools. In general, the project members are happy to report on their actions, so that the additional effort is usually not perceived as a burden.

Action

  1. After the project, the participants are asked with a checklist what went well in the project and where they see opportunities for improvement.
  2. Together with the participants, a story with the findings about the project is then written down on a few pages.
  3. Then the most important artifacts of the project that might be useful for other projects are collected. That can be B. Specifications as examples, templates, checklists, UML diagrams, architectures or other documents.
  4. Then the collected documents are put into a directory and the story is put on top as a cover.

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requirements

  • The project cannot be too long. Good experiences could be gained with 3 monthly projects.
  • The documentation must be carried out quickly immediately after the end of the project, otherwise a lot will be forgotten.

literature

  • Kurt Schneider: LIDs: A Light-Weight Approach to Experience Elicitation and Reuse. In: Frank Bomarius, Markku Oivo (Ed.): Product focused software process improvement (= Lecture notes in computer science 1840). Second international conference. Proceedings. PROFES 2000, Oulu, Finland, June 20-22, 2000. Springer, Berlin et al. 2000, ISBN 3-540-67688-0 , pp. 407-424.

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