Catching up with Method and Process Practice: An Industry-Informed Baseline for Researchers
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%.
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@article{arxiv.2101.12383,
title = {Catching up with Method and Process Practice: An Industry-Informed Baseline for Researchers},
author = {Jil Klünder and Regina Hebig and Paolo Tell and Marco Kuhrmann and Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende and Rogardt Heldal and Stephan Krusche and Masud Fazal-Baqaie and Michael Felderer and Marcela Fabiana Genero Bocco and Steffen Küpper and Sherlock A. Licorish and Gustavo Lòpez and Fergal McCaffery and Özden Özcan Top and Christian R. Prause and Rafael Prikladnicki and Eray Tüzün and Dietmar Pfahl and Kurt Schneider and Stephen G. MacDonell},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.12383},
year = {2021}
}
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Conference, 10 pages, 4 figures, 10 tables