Comparing two software emergency process models

Abstract

Organizations need guidance on how to efficiently manage emergency software problems. Such guidance, however, is available in only one process model today, CM3: Emergency Problem Management. In this paper, we compare CM3: Emergency Problem Management with an industrial software emergency process model. Our comparison results lead to the extensions of CM3: Emergency Problem Management with a pre-alert phase and a co-ordination of the management of emergency software problems with a crisis management process.