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Managing Software Process Evolution

Traditional, Agile and Beyond – How to Handle Process Change

  • Collects and summarizes the state of the art in analysis, design, implementation, management and governance, improvement and enactment of software processes
  • Provides the foundations of current research on software process improvement and management and lays the basis for further problem-driven research
  • Addresses researchers and practitioners by providing recent research results as well as experiences and best practices
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
  2. Low Ceremony Processes for Short Lifecycle Projects

    • Anthony I. Wasserman
    Pages 1-13
  3. The Right Degree of Agility in Rich Processes

    • Philipp Diebold, Thomas Zehler
    Pages 15-37
  4. Assessing Product Development Agility

    • Daniel X. Houston, Stephen W. Rosemergy
    Pages 39-60
  5. Value-Driven Process Management

    • Christof Ebert
    Pages 61-75
  6. Are We Ready for Disruptive Improvement?

    • Andreas Rösel
    Pages 77-91
  7. The Route to Software Process Improvement in Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises

    • Mary-Luz Sánchez-Gordón, Ricardo Colomo-Palacios, Antonio de Amescua Seco, Rory V. O’Connor
    Pages 109-136
  8. Managing Software Process Evolution for Spacecraft from a Customer’s Perspective

    • Christian R. Prause, Markus Bibus, Carsten Dietrich, Wolfgang Jobi
    Pages 137-163
  9. Modeling Software Processes Using BPMN: When and When Not?

    • Marlon Dumas, Dietmar Pfahl
    Pages 165-183
  10. Software Processes Management by Method Engineering with MESP

    • Masud Fazal-Baqaie, Gregor Engels
    Pages 185-209
  11. Adapting Case Management Techniques to Achieve Software Process Flexibility

    • Marian Benner-Wickner, Matthias Book, Volker Gruhn
    Pages 211-233
  12. Lessons Learned from Co-Evolution of Software Process and Model-Driven Engineering

    • Regina Hebig, Andreas I. Schmied, Ingo Weisemöller
    Pages 257-280
  13. Monitoring and Controlling Release Readiness by Learning Across Projects

    • S. M. Didar Al Alam, Dietmar Pfahl, Günther Ruhe
    Pages 281-303
  14. Back Matter

    Pages 329-332

About this book

This book focuses on the design, development, management, governance and application of evolving software processes that are aligned with changing business objectives, such as expansion to new domains or shifting to global production. In the context of an evolving business world, it examines the complete software process lifecycle, from the initial definition of a product to its systematic improvement. In doing so, it addresses difficult problems, such as how to implement processes in highly regulated domains or where to find a suitable notation system for documenting processes, and provides essential insights and tips to help readers manage process evolutions. And last but not least, it provides a wealth of examples and cases on how to deal with software evolution in practice.

Reflecting these topics, the book is divided into three parts. Part 1 focuses on software business transformation and addresses the questions of which process(es) to use and adapt, and how to organizeprocess improvement programs. Subsequently, Part 2 mainly addresses process modeling. Lastly, Part 3 collects concrete approaches, experiences, and recommendations that can help to improve software processes, with a particular focus on specific lifecycle phases.

This book is aimed at anyone interested in understanding and optimizing software development tasks at their organization. While the experiences and ideas presented will be useful for both those readers who are unfamiliar with software process improvement and want to get an overview of the different aspects of the topic, and for those who are experts with many years of experience, it particularly targets the needs of researchers and Ph.D. students in the area of software and systems engineering or information systems who study advanced topics concerning the organization and management of (software development) projects and process improvements projects. 

Reviews

“This book focuses on the evolution of software processes and presents different aspects of it, including design, development, management, governance, and application. … I enjoyed reading this book. It is well structured and well balanced around applicability to industry, industrial experience, and academic rigor. … A practitioner will enjoy the range of presented topics. … I truly enjoyed reading the book.” (Alexandre Bergel, Computing Reviews, April, 2017)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

    Marco Kuhrmann

  • University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Jürgen Münch

  • University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

    Ita Richardson

  • Technische Universität Clausthal, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany

    Andreas Rausch

  • Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

    He Zhang

About the editors

About the Editors:

Marco Kuhrmann is Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, where he heads the software engineering section. He holds a Ph.D. and a habilitation in computer sciences from the Technische Universität München, Germany. His research is focused on software process & quality management and agile engineering.

Jürgen Münch is a Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Reutlingen, Germany, and a Research Director in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His research in software engineering is focused on product management, lean analytics, rapid value delivery, innovation processes, and agile engineering. He regularly supports companies to improve their product strategy and product development. He has been awarded the IFIP TC2 Manfred Paul Award for Excellence in Software Theory and Practice, and the Distinguished Professor Award FiDiPro of Tekes.

Ita Richardson is an Associate Professor at the University of Limerick in Ireland and a Principal Investigator in Lero – the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre.  She holds a Ph.D. in computer sciences from the University of Limerick. Her research is focused on software process improvement, global software development, software quality in healthcare and connected health.

Andreas Rausch is Professor for Software Systems Engineering at the Technical University of Clausthal. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the Technische Universität München. His research is focused on software architecture, modeling, and software processes for the development of reliable and long-living software systems.

He (Jason) Zhang is Professor at the Software Institute of Nanjing University, China. He was awarded a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia. He joined academia after seven years in industry, where he had developed software systems in the areas of aerospace and complex data management. He does research in software engineering, in particular software processes (modelling, simulation, analytics and improvement), empirical and evidence-based software engineering, service-oriented computing, and software engineering research methodologies.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Managing Software Process Evolution

  • Book Subtitle: Traditional, Agile and Beyond – How to Handle Process Change

  • Editors: Marco Kuhrmann, Jürgen Münch, Ita Richardson, Andreas Rausch, He Zhang

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31545-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-31543-0Published: 22 September 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81060-7Published: 14 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-31545-4Published: 15 September 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVII, 332

  • Number of Illustrations: 66 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Software Engineering, Management of Computing and Information Systems, Software Management

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