Towards the use of Six Sigma in software development

The purpose of this paper is to discuss how Six Sigma may be applied to the software development process (SDP). Six Sigma is a strategy that measures the degree by which a business process deviates from its goal (Harry, 1998 ). So in this paper we investigate the application of the design for Six Si...

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