Hybrid software and system development in practice: Waterfall, scrum, and beyond

Marco Kuhrmann; Philipp Diebold; Jürgen Münch; Paolo Tell; Vahid Garousi; Michael Felderer; Kitija Trektere; Fergal McCaffery; Oliver Linssen; Eckhart Hanser; Christian R. Prause

doi:10.1145/3084100.3084104

Hybrid software and system development in practice: Waterfall, scrum, and beyond

Marco Kuhrmann, Philipp Diebold, Jürgen Münch, Paolo Tell, Vahid Garousi, Michael Felderer, Kitija Trektere, Fergal McCaffery, Oliver Linssen, Eckhart Hanser, Christian R. Prause

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Abstract

Software and system development faces numerous challenges of rapidly changing markets. To address such challenges, companies and projects design and adopt specific development approaches by combining well-structured comprehensive methods and flexible agile practices. Yet, the number of methods and practices is large, and available studies argue that the actual process composition is carried out in a fairly ad-hoc manner. The present paper reports on a survey on hybrid software development approaches. We study which approaches are used in practice, how different approaches are combined, and what contextual factors influence the use and combination of hybrid software development approaches. Our results from 69 study participants show a variety of development approaches used and combined in practice. We show that most combinations follow a pattern in which a traditional process model serves as framework in which several fine-grained (agile) practices are plugged in. We further show that hybrid software development approaches are independent from the company size and external triggers. We conclude that such approaches are the results of a natural process evolution, which is mainly driven by experience, learning, and pragmatism.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICSSP 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Software and System Process
Editors	Reda Bendraou, Fabrizio Maria Maggi, David Raffo, Huang LiGuo
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	30-39
Number of pages	10
Volume	Part F128767
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450352703
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3084100.3084104
Publication status	Published - 05 Jul 2017
Externally published	Yes
Event	2017 International Conference on Software and System Process, ICSSP 2017 - Paris, France Duration: 05 Jul 2017 → 07 Jul 2017

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Conference	2017 International Conference on Software and System Process, ICSSP 2017
Country/Territory	France
City	Paris
Period	05/07/2017 → 07/07/2017

Keywords

Agile Software Development
Hybrid Development Approaches
Software Process
Survey

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Networks and Communications
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Software

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Kuhrmann, M., Diebold, P., Münch, J., Tell, P., Garousi, V., Felderer, M., Trektere, K., McCaffery, F., Linssen, O., Hanser, E., & Prause, C. R. (2017). Hybrid software and system development in practice: Waterfall, scrum, and beyond. In R. Bendraou, F. M. Maggi, D. Raffo, & H. LiGuo (Eds.), ICSSP 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Software and System Process (Vol. Part F128767, pp. 30-39). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3084100.3084104

Kuhrmann, Marco ; Diebold, Philipp ; Münch, Jürgen et al. / Hybrid software and system development in practice: Waterfall, scrum, and beyond. ICSSP 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Software and System Process. editor / Reda Bendraou ; Fabrizio Maria Maggi ; David Raffo ; Huang LiGuo. Vol. Part F128767 Association for Computing Machinery, 2017. pp. 30-39

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