Making globally distributed software development a success story : International Conference on Software Process, ICSP 2008, Leipzig, Germany, May 10-11, 2008 : proceedings

This volume contains papers presented at the International Conference on Software Process (ICSP 2008) held in Leipzig, Germany, during May 10-11, 2008. ICSP 2008 was the second conference of the ICSP series. The theme of ICSP 2008 was "Making Globally Distributed Software Development a Success Story." Software developers work in a dynamic context of frequently changing technologies and with limited resources. Globally distributed development teams are under ev- increasing pressure to deliver their products more quickly and with higher levels of qu- ity. At the same time, global competition is forcing software development organizations to cut costs by rationalizing processes, outsourcing part of or all development activities, reusing existing software in new or modified applications, and evolving existing systems to meet new needs, while still minimizing the risk of projects failing to deliver. To address these difficulties, new and modified processes are emerging, including agile methods and plan-based product line development. Open Source, COTS, and com- nity-developed software are becoming more and more popular. Outsourcing coupled with 24/7 development demands well-defined processes to support the coordination of organizationally -- and geographically -- separated teams. The accepted papers present completed research or advanced work-in-progress in all areas of software and systems development process including: agile software pr- esses, CMMI, novel techniques for software process representation and analysis; process tools and metrics; and the simulation and modeling of software processes. Contributions reflecting real-world experience, or derived directly from industrial or open-source software development and evolution, were particularly welcome Front Matter....Pages - Benefits of Global Software Development: The Known and Unknown....Pages 1-9 Method Engineering: Towards Methods as Services....Pages 10-11 Macro-processes Informing Micro-processes: The Case of Software Project Performance....Pages 12-23 Improving Software Risk Management Practices in a Medical Device Company....Pages 24-35 Framework to Evaluate Software Process Improvement in Small Organizations....Pages 36-50 On Deriving Actions for Improving Cost Overrun by Applying Association Rule Mining to Industrial Project Repository....Pages 51-62 Software Multi-project Resource Scheduling: A Comparative Analysis....Pages 63-75 Project Assets Ontology (PAO) to Support Gap Analysis for Organization Process Improvement Based on CMMI v.1.2....Pages 76-87 Towards Individualized Requirements Specification Evolution for Networked Software Based on Aspect....Pages 88-99 Requirement-Centric Traceability for Change Impact Analysis: A Case Study....Pages 100-111 Scaling Up Software Architecture Evaluation Processes....Pages 112-122 Software Project Similarity Measurement Based on Fuzzy C-Means....Pages 123-134 An Empirically–Based Process to Improve the Practice of Requirement Review....Pages 135-146 Capability Assessment of Individual Software Development Processes Using Software Repositories and DEA....Pages 147-159 Scoping Software Process Models - Initial Concepts and Experience from Defining Space Standards....Pages 160-172 Detection of Consistent Patterns from Process Enactment Data....Pages 173-185 A Deviation Management System for Handling Software Process Enactment Evolution....Pages 186-197 Assessing Quality Processes with ODC COQUALMO....Pages 198-209 Accurate Estimates without Calibration?....Pages 210-221 Investigating Factors Affecting the Usability of Software Process Descriptions....Pages 222-233 Degree of Agility in Pre-Implementation Process Phases....Pages 234-245 Support IT Service Management with Process Modeling and Analysis....Pages 246-256 The Secret Life of a Process Description: A Look into the Evolution of a Large Process Model....Pages 257-268 Simulating Worst Case Scenarios and Analyzing Their Combined Effect in Operational Release Planning....Pages 269-281 Using Process Simulation to Assess the Test Design Effort Reduction of a Model-Based Testing Approach....Pages 282-293 GENSIM 2.0: A Customizable Process Simulation Model for Software Process Evaluation....Pages 294-306 RVSim: A Simulation Approach to Predict the Impact of Requirements Volatility on Software Project Plans....Pages 307-319 Identifying Key Success Factors for Globally Distributed Software Development Project Using Simulation: A Case Study....Pages 320-332 Hybrid Modeling of Test-and-Fix Processes in Incremental Development....Pages 333-344 Reflections on 10 Years of Software Process Simulation Modeling: A Systematic Review....Pages 345-356 Integrating Joint Reviews with Automotive SPICE Assessments Results....Pages 357-368 Quantitatively Managing Defects for Iterative Projects: An Industrial Experience Report in China....Pages 369-380 An Investigation of Software Development Productivity in China....Pages 381-394 Optimized Software Process for Fault Handling in Global Software Development....Pages 395-406 Measuring and Comparing the Adoption of Software Process Practices in the Software Product Industry....Pages 407-419 Back Matter....Pages - This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software Process, held in Leipzig, Germany, in May 2008 - colocated with ICSE 2008, the 30th International Conference on Software Engineering. The 33 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 106 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on process content, process tools and metrics, process management, process representation, analysis and modeling, experience report, and simulation modeling