TY - GEN

T1 - Catching up with method and process practice

T2 - 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2019

AU - Klünder, Jil

AU - Hebig, Regina

AU - Tell, Paolo

AU - Kuhrmann, Marco

AU - Nakatumba-Nabende, Joyce

AU - Heldal, Rogardt

AU - Krusche, Stephan

AU - Fazal-Baqaie, Masud

AU - Felderer, Michael

AU - Bocco, Marcela Fabiana Genero

AU - Kupper, Steffen

AU - Licorish, Sherlock

AU - Lopez, Gustavo

AU - Mc Caffery, Fergal Hugh

AU - Ozcan-Top, Ozden

AU - Prause, Christian R

AU - Prikladnicki, Rafael

AU - Tuzun, Eray

AU - Schneider, Kurt

AU - MacDonell, Stephen G

N1 - Funding Information: We thank all the study participants and the researchers involved in the HELENA project for their great effort in collecting data points. Dietmar Pfahl was supported by the group grant IUT20-55 of the Estonian Research Council. Rafael Prik-ladnicki is partially funded by FAPERGS (17/2551-0001/205-4) and CNPq. Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende was supported by the Sida/BRIGHT project 317 under the Makerere-Swedish bilateral research programme 2015–2020. Fergal McCaffery and Özden Özcan Top were supported by Science Foundation Ireland grant 13/RC/2094 and co-funded under the European Regional Development Fund through Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre.

PY - 2019/5

Y1 - 2019/5

N2 - 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%.

AB - 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%.

KW - Hybrid Methods

KW - Software Process

KW - Survey Research

KW - software Development

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85072101502&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.48550/arXiv.2101.12383

DO - 10.48550/arXiv.2101.12383

M3 - Conference contribution

SN - 978-1-7281-1761-4

SP - 255

EP - 264

BT - 2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice, ICSE-SEIP 2019

PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Y2 - 25 May 2019 through 31 May 2019

ER -