@article{19573,
      note = {Book taken from shelf without permission - missing; Price  : NLG Supplier : Nedbook, Amsterdam; recd 18/03/92;  Contents : Part 1 : The software challenge : 1.  Product-process strategy and Japan's software industry; 2.  The technology : recurring problems; Part 2 : The factory  approach : 3. System development corporation : a U.S.  factory experiment; 4. Hitachi : organizing for process and  quality control; 5. Tochiba : linking productivity and  reusability; 6. NEC : a multiproduct, multiprocess factory  network; 7. Fujitsu : process control to automated  customization; 8. Standardization and cooperative R&D;  Conclusion : 9. Software development : from craft to  factory practice; Appendixes : A. Survey of manager  emphases : the process spectrum; B. Japanese and U.S.  project performance; C. Market shares and customer  satisfaction in Japan; Notes; Index;},
      author = {Cusumano, Michael A., and Cusumano, Michael A., and  Chandler, Alfred Dupont.},
      url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/19573},
      title = {Japan's software factories : a challenge to U.S.  management /},
      abstract = {Though Japan has successfully competed with U.S. companies  in the manufacturing and marketing of computer hardware, it  has been less successful in developing computer programs.  This book contains the first detailed analysis of how  Japanese firms have tried to redress this imbalance by  applying their skills in engineering and production  management to software development. Cusumano focuses on the  creation of "software factories" in which large numbers of  people are engaged in developing software in cooperative  ways---i.e. individual programs are not developed in  isolation but rather utilize portions of other programs  already developed whenever possible, and then yield usable  portions for other programs being written. Devoting  chapters to working methods at System Developing Corp.,  Hitachi, Toshiba, NEC, and Fujitsu, and including a  comparison of Japanese and U.S. software factories,  Cusumano's book will be important reading for all people  involved in software and computer technology, as well as  those interested in Japanese business and corporate  culture.},
      recid = {19573},
      pages = {ix, 513 pages :},
}