The Ericsson's approach to software improvements

In 1993 Ericsson Corporate initiated the ESSI (Ericsson Systems Software Initiative), to achieve breakthrough improvements in software developments. Ericsson Australia`s software improvement program is being carried out in the form of a project. A baseline was defined in Feb'95 through the CMM assessment. The assessment team comprised of members of the Ericsson Design Centres in Brazil, Mexico, USA, Holland, Sweden and Australia. The project, called SWIFT (Software Improvement For System Design and Engineering Division), is run according to standard Ericsson project methodology - PROPS - with defined project Milestones and Tollgates. Ericsson Australia intends to use the Ericsson improvement cycle PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act) as a main improvement methodology. Upon conclusion of the SWIFT, the next improvement cycle will be defined and carried out.