Catching up with Method and Process Practice: An Industry-Informed Baseline for Researchers
Paper i 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%.
Survey Research
Hybrid Methods
Software Process
software Development
Författare
Jil Klünder
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Regina Hebig
Göteborgs universitet
Paolo Tell
Köpenhamns universitet
Marco Kuhrmann
Technischen Universität Clausthal
Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende
Makerere University
Rogardt Heldal
Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, CSE Verksamhetsstöd
Göteborgs universitet
Stephan Krusche
Technische Universität München
Masud Fazal-Baqaie
Fraunhofer Institute for Mechatronic Systems Design IEM
Michael Felderer
University of Innsbruck
Marcela Fabiana Genero Bocco
Universidad de Castilla, La Mancha
Steffen Küpper
Technischen Universität Clausthal
S. A. Licorish
University of Otago
Gustavo Lopez
Universidad de Costa Rica
Fergal McCaffery
Dundalk Institute of Technology
Ozden Ozcan Top
Dundalk Institute of Technology
Christian R. Prause
Deutsches Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
Rafael Prikladnicki
Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul
Eray Tuzun
Bilkent Universitesi
Dietmar Pfahl
Tartu Ülikool
Kurt Schneider
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Stephen G. MacDonell
Auckland University of Technology
Proceedings - 2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice, ICSE-SEIP 2019
Vol. May 2019 255-264 8804460
978-172811760-7 (ISBN)
41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice, ICSE-SEIP 2019
Montreal, Canada,
Montreal, Canada,
Ämneskategorier
Produktionsteknik, arbetsvetenskap och ergonomi
Programvaruteknik
Systemvetenskap
DOI
10.1109/ICSE-SEIP.2019.00036