Catching up with Method and Process Practice: An Industry-Informed Baseline for Researchers
Paper in proceeding, 2019
Software development methods are usually not applied by the book.companies are under pressure to continuously deploy software products that meet market needs and stakeholders' requests. To implement efficient and effective development processes, companies utilize multiple frameworks, methods and practices, and combine these into hybrid methods. A common combination contains a rich management framework to organize and steer projects complemented with a number of smaller practices providing the development teams with tools to complete their tasks. In this paper, based on 732 data points collected through an international survey, we study the software development process use in practice. Our results show that 76.8% of the companies implement hybrid methods.company size as well as the strategy in devising and evolving hybrid methods affect the suitability of the chosen process to reach company or project goals. Our findings show that companies that combine planned improvement programs with process evolution can increase their process' suitability by up to 5%.
Hybrid Methods
software Development
Software Process
Survey Research
Author
Jil Klünder
University of Hanover
Regina Hebig
University of Gothenburg
Paolo Tell
University of Copenhagen
Marco Kuhrmann
Clausthal University of Technology
Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende
Makerere University
Rogardt Heldal
University of Gothenburg
Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), CSE Verksamhetsstöd
Stephan Krusche
Technical University of Munich
Masud Fazal-Baqaie
Fraunhofer Society
Michael Felderer
University of Innsbruck
Marcela Fabiana Genero Bocco
University of Castilla, La Mancha
Steffen Küpper
Clausthal University of Technology
S. A. Licorish
University of Otago
Gustavo Lopez
University of Costa Rica
Fergal McCaffery
Dundalk Institute of Technology
Ozden Ozcan Top
Dundalk Institute of Technology
Christian R. Prause
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Rafael Prikladnicki
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul
Eray Tuzun
Bilkent University
Dietmar Pfahl
University of Tartu
Kurt Schneider
University of Hanover
Stephen G. MacDonell
Auckland University of Technology
Published in
Proceedings - 2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice, ICSE-SEIP 2019
Vol. May 2019 p. 255-264 art. no 8804460
978-172811760-7 (ISBN)
Conference
41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice, ICSE-SEIP 2019
Montreal, Canada, 2019-05-24 - 2019-05-30
Montreal, Canada, 2019-05-24 - 2019-05-30
Categorizing
Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)
Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics
Software Engineering
Information Science
Identifiers
DOI
10.1109/ICSE-SEIP.2019.00036