Making Globally Distributed Software Development a Success Story

1. Front Matter

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2. Invited Talk

   1. Benefits of Global Software Development: The Known and Unknown

      • Pär J. Ågerfalk, Brian Fitzgerald, Helena Holmström Olsson, Eoin Ó Conchúir

      Pages 1-9

   2. Method Engineering: Towards Methods as Services

      • Colette Rolland

      Pages 10-11

3. Process Management

   1. Macro-processes Informing Micro-processes: The Case of Software Project Performance

      • Paul L. Bannerman

      Pages 12-23

   2. Improving Software Risk Management Practices in a Medical Device Company

      • John Burton, Fergal McCaffery, Ita Richardson

      Pages 24-35

   3. Framework to Evaluate Software Process Improvement in Small Organizations

      • Pedro E. Colla, Jorge Marcelo Montagna

      Pages 36-50

   4. On Deriving Actions for Improving Cost Overrun by Applying Association Rule Mining to Industrial Project Repository

      • Junya Debari, Osamu Mizuno, Tohru Kikuno, Nahomi Kikuchi, Masayuki Hirayama

      Pages 51-62

   5. Software Multi-project Resource Scheduling: A Comparative Analysis

      • Fei Dong, Mingshu Li, Yuzhu Zhao, Juan Li, Ye Yang

      Pages 63-75

   6. Project Assets Ontology (PAO) to Support Gap Analysis for Organization Process Improvement Based on CMMI v.1.2

      • Suwanit Rungratri, Sasiporn Usanavasin

      Pages 76-87

4. Process Content

   1. Towards Individualized Requirements Specification Evolution for Networked Software Based on Aspect

      • Zaiwen Feng, Keqing He, Yutao Ma, Jian Wang, Ping Gong

      Pages 88-99

   2. Requirement-Centric Traceability for Change Impact Analysis: A Case Study

      • Yin Li, Juan Li, Ye Yang, Mingshu Li

      Pages 100-111

   3. Scaling Up Software Architecture Evaluation Processes

      • Liming Zhu, Mark Staples, Ross Jeffery

      Pages 112-122

5. Process Tools and Metrics

   1. Software Project Similarity Measurement Based on Fuzzy C-Means

      • Mohammad Azzeh, Daniel Neagu, Peter Cowling

      Pages 123-134

   2. An Empirically–Based Process to Improve the Practice of Requirement Review

      • Juan Li, Lishan Hou, Zhongsen Qin, Qing Wang, Guisheng Chen

      Pages 135-146

   3. Capability Assessment of Individual Software Development Processes Using Software Repositories and DEA

      • Shen Zhang, Yongji Wang, Ye Yang, Junchao Xiao

      Pages 147-159

6. Process Representation, Analysis and Modeling

   1. Scoping Software Process Models - Initial Concepts and Experience from Defining Space Standards

      • Ove Armbrust, Masafumi Katahira, Yuko Miyamoto, Jürgen Münch, Haruka Nakao, Alexis Ocampo

      Pages 160-172

   2. Detection of Consistent Patterns from Process Enactment Data

      • Ming Huo, He Zhang, Ross Jeffery

      Pages 173-185

   3. A Deviation Management System for Handling Software Process Enactment Evolution

      • Mohammed Kabbaj, Redouane Lbath, Bernard Coulette

      Pages 186-197

   4. Assessing Quality Processes with ODC COQUALMO

      • Raymond Madachy, Barry Boehm

      Pages 198-209

   5. Accurate Estimates without Calibration?

      • Tim Menzies, Oussama Elrawas, Barry Boehm, Raymond Madachy, Jairus Hihn, Daniel Baker et al.

      Pages 210-221

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.

• IT Service Management
• Service-oriented Computing
• Simulation
• Software Engineering
• agile methods
• architecture
• association rule mining
• dynamic models
• evaluation
• information retrieval
• metamodels
• modeling
• ontology
• process
• process analysis

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