In our efforts to increase software development productivity, we have worked to introduce numerous software development techniques and technologies into various target organizations. Through these efforts, we have come to understand the difficulties involved in technical transfer. Some of the major hurdles that these organizations face during technical transfers are tight schedules and budgets. We have made efforts to lighten this load by using various customization techniques and have defined an overall process called the Technology Transfer Macro-Process that we can use to introduce a wide variety of software development techniques and technologies into a target organization.

The issue of software development productivity with new technology has increasingly become an important topic within our corporation. However, with the increase in size and complexity of software, and the continuous demand for developers to deliver software within tight schedules, developers cannot readily afford to take the extra time needed to learn and incorporate new technologies into their development process. The paper introduces the concept of a "Process Warehouse" whose aim is to aid in the efficient introduction and transfer of a particular target technology into a software organization. A framework for the Process Warehouse and suggested methods for preparing technical information for the Process Warehouse are described. This concept has been used successfully to introduce object oriented technology (OOT) into projects and will be used as a base to create a similar Process Warehouse that concentrates on embedded real time OOT issues in the near future.