Browsing by Author "Heldal, Rogardt"

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    Catching up with Method and Process Practice: An Industry-Informed Baseline for Researchers
    (IEEE, 2019) Klunder, Jil; Hebig, Regina; Tell, Paolo; Kuhrmann, Marco; Nakatumba-Nabende, Joyce; Heldal, Rogardt; Prikladnickixv, Rafael; Tuzunxvi, Eray; Pfahlxvii, Dietmar; Schneider, Kurt; MacDonellxviii, Stephen G.
    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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    Hybrid Software and Systems Development in Practice: Perspectives from Sweden and Uganda
    (Springer, Cham, 2017) Kanagwa, Benjamin; Hebig, Regina; Heldal, Rogardt; Knauss, Eric
    Many organizations are adapting the use of hybrid software development approaches by combining traditional methods with flexible agile practices. This paper presents the initial results from the survey on the use of hybrid software and systems approaches. The results are from twenty one respondents from Sweden and Uganda. Our results show that the iterative model is the most widely used process model in both Sweden and Uganda. However, the traditional process models are also used in combination with the more agile models like Scrum. From the results, we also show that the large sized companies face the biggest problems during implementation of agility since they have to adhere to standards and control measures.