The status and prospect of process improvements in china

Abstract

Process improvement in China was started in 2000. In the past decade, the ratio of service type of appraisals to total appraisals is less than 1 %. Accordingly we are paying much more attention on service type of appraisals. A large enterprise’s business might be related to development, service and acquisition. A healthy environment should be fostered to process improvement given some negative phenomena appearing recently in the process improvement in China, such as unreasonably shortened appraisal period, pursuing quick pay back and so on. In order to effectively develop software and system processes improvement, not only engineering issues need to be addressed but also psychology, management, ethnics, and sociology need to be taken into account. In addition, the Chinese community needs to broaden PI activities, especially into tertiary industry, to implement multi-model appraisal, and to improve social science skills for PI. It is also important to establish healthy PI ecological environment, to actively develop collaborative, communicating communities and to build up shared repositories as well.