TY - GEN
T1 - Release Planning in a Hybrid Project Environment
AU - Marner, Kristina
AU - Theobald, Sven
AU - Wagner, Stefan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Context: Even regulated domains like the automotive domain increasingly adopt agile software development. However, traditional sequential processes are still in use and have to coexist with the new development approaches. Collaboration between agile and hybrid projects within complex traditional product development processes is challenging, especially regarding the creation and synchronization of a qualification phase plan. Objective: The aim of this study is to motivate research related to the combined use of agile and traditional paradigms in release planning in the automotive domain and to report challenges from industry. Method: We introduce and motivate the research topic and discuss related work based on the results of a small literature study. Further, an online survey with 56 respondents from an automotive Original Equipment Manufacturer was conducted. Results: There is a clear research gap regarding release planning for combined agile and traditional projects. The state-of-the-practice survey identified challenges, such as a lack of transparency regarding the status quo of related projects. Conclusions: The research gap as well as the challenges from industry should motivate further research on this topic, in order to improve release planning processes in this specific context.
AB - Context: Even regulated domains like the automotive domain increasingly adopt agile software development. However, traditional sequential processes are still in use and have to coexist with the new development approaches. Collaboration between agile and hybrid projects within complex traditional product development processes is challenging, especially regarding the creation and synchronization of a qualification phase plan. Objective: The aim of this study is to motivate research related to the combined use of agile and traditional paradigms in release planning in the automotive domain and to report challenges from industry. Method: We introduce and motivate the research topic and discuss related work based on the results of a small literature study. Further, an online survey with 56 respondents from an automotive Original Equipment Manufacturer was conducted. Results: There is a clear research gap regarding release planning for combined agile and traditional projects. The state-of-the-practice survey identified challenges, such as a lack of transparency regarding the status quo of related projects. Conclusions: The research gap as well as the challenges from industry should motivate further research on this topic, in order to improve release planning processes in this specific context.
KW - Agile method
KW - Automotive
KW - Challenges
KW - Hybrid development process
KW - Hybrid project environment
KW - Product development process
KW - Qualification phase
KW - Release planning
KW - Traditional process
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-37534-8_2
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-37534-8_2
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85078490392
SN - 9783030375331
T3 - Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
SP - 19
EP - 40
BT - Advances in Agile and User-Centred Software Engineering - 3rd International Conference on Lean and Agile Software Development, LASD 2019, and 7th Conference on Multimedia, Interaction, Design and Innovation, MIDI 2019, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Przybylek, Adam
A2 - Morales-Trujillo, Miguel Ehécatl
PB - Springer
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Lean and Agile Software Development, LASD 2019, and the 7th Conference on Multimedia, Interaction, Design and Innovation, MIDI 2019
Y2 - 1 September 2019 through 4 September 2019
ER -