How Process Helps You in Developing a High Quality Medical Information System.

A medical information system is one extreme in using tacit knowledge that patricians and medical experts such as medical doctors use a lot but the knowledge may include a lot of experience information and be not explicitly formulated or implied. This is simply different from other discipline areas such as embedded engineering systems. Developing a mechanical system critically depends on how effectively such various knowledge is organized and integrated in implementing a system. As such, the development process that customers, management, engineers, and teams are involved must be evaluated from this view point. Existence of tacit knowledge may not be sensed well enough at project beginning, however it is necessary for project success. This paper describes the problems and how the Personal Software Process (PSP) and Team Software Process (TSP²) manage this problem and then typical performance results are discussed. It may be said that PSP individual and TSP team are CMMI level 4 units respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]