Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 21st International Conference, PROFES 2020, Turin, Italy, November 25–27, 2020, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Book 12562)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2020, held in Turin, Italy, in November 2020. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 19 revised full papers and 3 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. The papers cover a broad range of topics related to professional software development and process improvement driven by product and service quality needs. They are organized in topical sections on Agile Software Development. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 A Systematic Literature Review on Agile Coaching and the Role of the Agile Coach (Viktoria Stray, Bakhtawar Memon, Lucas Paruch)....Pages 3-19 Agile Leadership and Agile Management on Organizational Level - A Systematic Literature Review (Sven Theobald, Nils Prenner, Alexander Krieg, Kurt Schneider)....Pages 20-36 A Study of the Agile Coach’s Role (Kadri Daljajev, Ezequiel Scott, Fredrik Milani, Dietmar Pfahl)....Pages 37-52 Impediment Management of Agile Software Development Teams (Pascal Guckenbiehl, Sven Theobald)....Pages 53-68 How to Integrate Security Compliance Requirements with Agile Software Engineering at Scale? (Fabiola Moyón, Daniel Méndez, Kristian Beckers, Sebastian Klepper)....Pages 69-87 A Portfolio-Driven Development Model and Its Management Method of Agile Product Line Engineering Applied to Automotive Software Development (Kengo Hayashi, Mikio Aoyama)....Pages 88-105 Lean R&D: An Agile Research and Development Approach for Digital Transformation (Marcos Kalinowski, Hélio Lopes, Alex Furtado Teixeira, Gabriel da Silva Cardoso, André Kuramoto, Bruno Itagyba et al.)....Pages 106-124 Success and Failure Factors for Adopting a Combined Approach: A Case Study of Two Software Development Teams (Ingrid Signoretti, Maximilian Zorzetti, Larissa Salerno, Cassiano Moralles, Eliana Pereira, Cássio Trindade et al.)....Pages 125-141 A Practice-Informed Conceptual Model for a Combined Approach of Agile, User-Centered Design, and Lean Startup (Maximilian Zorzetti, Ingrid Signoretti, Eliana Pereira, Larissa Salerno, Cassiano Moralles, Cássio Trindade et al.)....Pages 142-150 Front Matter ....Pages 151-151 Demystifying Data Science Projects: A Look on the People and Process of Data Science Today (Timo Aho, Outi Sievi-Korte, Terhi Kilamo, Sezin Yaman, Tommi Mikkonen)....Pages 153-167 Data Pipeline Management in Practice: Challenges and Opportunities (Aiswarya Raj Munappy, Jan Bosch, Helena Homström Olsson)....Pages 168-184 From a Data Science Driven Process to a Continuous Delivery Process for Machine Learning Systems (Lucy Ellen Lwakatare, Ivica Crnkovic, Ellinor Rånge, Jan Bosch)....Pages 185-201 Data Labeling: An Empirical Investigation into Industrial Challenges and Mitigation Strategies (Teodor Fredriksson, David Issa Mattos, Jan Bosch, Helena Holmström Olsson)....Pages 202-216 An End-to-End Framework for Productive Use of Machine Learning in Software Analytics and Business Intelligence Solutions (Iris Figalist, Christoph Elsner, Jan Bosch, Helena Holmström Olsson)....Pages 217-233 Front Matter ....Pages 235-235 A Systematic-Oriented Process for Tool Selection: The Case of Green and Technical Debt Tools in Architecture Reconstruction (Daniel Guamán, Jennifer Pérez, Juan Garbajosa, Germania Rodríguez)....Pages 237-253 Redefining Legacy: A Technical Debt Perspective (Ben D. Monaghan, Julian M. Bass)....Pages 254-269 Improving a Software Modernisation Process by Differencing Migration Logs (Céline Deknop, Johan Fabry, Kim Mens, Vadim Zaytsev)....Pages 270-286 The Effect of Class Noise on Continuous Test Case Selection: A Controlled Experiment on Industrial Data (Khaled Walid Al-Sabbagh, Regina Hebig, Miroslaw Staron)....Pages 287-303 On Clones and Comments in Production and Test Classes: An Empirical Study (Steve Counsell, Steve Swift, Mahir Arzoky, Giuseppe Destefnas)....Pages 304-311 Front Matter ....Pages 313-313 Dimensions of Consistency in GSD: Social Factors, Structures and Interactions (Outi Sievi-Korte, Fabian Fagerholm, Kari Systä, Tommi Mikkonen)....Pages 315-330 Ethical Guidelines for Solving Ethical Issues and Developing AI Systems (Nagadivya Balasubramaniam, Marjo Kauppinen, Sari Kujala, Kari Hiekkanen)....Pages 331-346 Sentiment Polarity and Bug Introduction (Simone Romano, Maria Caulo, Giuseppe Scanniello, Maria Teresa Baldassarre, Danilo Caivano)....Pages 347-363 Front Matter ....Pages 365-365 Kuksa\(^{*}\): Self-adaptive Microservices in Automotive Systems (Ahmad Banijamali, Pasi Kuvaja, Markku Oivo, Pooyan Jamshidi)....Pages 367-384 Compliance Requirements in Large-Scale Software Development: An Industrial Case Study (Muhammad Usman, Michael Felderer, Michael Unterkalmsteiner, Eriks Klotins, Daniel Mendez, Emil Alégroth)....Pages 385-401 Software Startup Practices – Software Development in Startups Through the Lens of the Essence Theory of Software Engineering (Kai-Kristian Kemell, Ville Ravaska, Anh Nguyen-Duc, Pekka Abrahamsson)....Pages 402-418 An Empirical Investigation into Industrial Use of Software Metrics Programs (Prabhat Ram, Pilar Rodríguez, Markku Oivo, Alessandra Bagnato, Antonin Abherve, Michał Choraś et al.)....Pages 419-433 Integration of Security Standards in DevOps Pipelines: An Industry Case Study (Fabiola Moyón, Rafael Soares, Maria Pinto-Albuquerque, Daniel Mendez, Kristian Beckers)....Pages 434-452 Exploring the Microservice Development Process in Small and Medium-Sized Organizations (Jonas Sorgalla, Sabine Sachweh, Albert Zündorf)....Pages 453-460 Back Matter ....Pages 461-462 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2014, held in Helsinki, Finland, in December 2014. The 18 revised full papers presented together with 14 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on agile development, decision-making, development practices and issues, product planning, and project management.