The Architecture of OPAL for the Software Process Improvement in High Maturity Level

As an infrastructure of software enterprise management, organizational process asset library (OPAL) is vital essential to deploy and improve processes of software organizations. Not well managed and maintained OPAL will make more difficulties for software process improvement work. In order to do the process improvement work effectively, the paper proposes OPAL architecture for process improvements, especially for process improvements in high maturity level. This architecture has been used in an actual enterprise for high maturity level process improvement, and it has been illustrated that the architecture is easy for maintenance and extension. This architecture can furnish valuable practices for software enterprises to manage and maintain OPAL.