Catching up with Method and Process Practice: An Industry-Informed Baseline for Researchers

Jil Klunder, Regina Hebig, Paolo Tell, Marco Kuhrmann, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Rogardt Heldal, Stephan Krusche, Masud Fazal-Baqaie, Michael Felderer, Marcela Fabiana Genero Bocco, Steffen Kupper, Sherlock A. Licorish, Gustavo Lopez, Fergal McCaffery, Ozden Ozcan Top, Christian R. Prause, Rafael Prikladnicki, Eray Tuzun, Dietmar Pfahl, Kurt SchneiderStephen G. MacDonell

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Abstract

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%.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering
Subtitle of host publicationSoftware Engineering in Practice, ICSE-SEIP 2019
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages255-264
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781728117607
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2019
Event41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice, ICSE-SEIP 2019 - Montreal, Canada
Duration: 25 May 201931 May 2019

Publication series

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

Conference

Conference41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice, ICSE-SEIP 2019
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityMontreal
Period25/05/1931/05/19

Keywords

  • Hybrid Methods
  • Software Process
  • Survey Research
  • software Development

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