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Record W1508017798 · doi:10.1002/0471028959.sof325

Software Productivity Center Inc.

2002· other· en· W1508017798 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueEncyclopedia of Software Engineering · 2002
Typeother
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicSoftware Engineering Techniques and Practices
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsStandardizationProductivityBusinessBest practiceSituatedSoftwareProcess managementProcess (computing)Engineering managementOperations managementMarketingEngineeringKnowledge managementComputer scienceManagement

Abstract

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Abstract Software Productivity Center Inc. (SPC) was formed in 1992 as a nonprofit organization promoting the use of best practices and processes to increase the efficiency, reliability, and predictability of the software development process. The SPC is located in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Its clients are situated around the world with the majority in the United States. The goal outlined in the original business plan was for the center to become self‐sustaining in five years. It reached this and privatized in 1997. SPC has a few attributes that set it apart from other leading centers for software process. SPC has a business perspective. SPC advocates best practices that will have the greatest initial impact on the success of the business, while helping to put a structure in place to ensure ongoing learning and advancement of the organization and its staff. SPC has over 100 member companies that enjoy benefits such as discounts on training and products, free monthly seminars, and advice and information from SPC experts. Interaction with these member companies ensures SPC stays current with the challenges and issues facing software organizations each day. Member companies also benefit from SPC's affiliation and participation in international organizations such as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO standards), The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE), and the Project Management Institute (PMI).

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.088
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.212
Teacher spread0.204 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it