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Collaboration, Process Control, and Fragility in Evolutionary Product Development
May/June 2007 (vol. 24 no. 3)
pp. 96-104
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| Tor Erlend F?gri, Geir Kjetil Hanssen, "Collaboration, Process Control, and Fragility in Evolutionary Product Development," IEEE Software, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 96-104, May/June, 2007. | |||
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| @article{ 10.1109/MS.2007.68, author = {Tor Erlend F?gri and Geir Kjetil Hanssen}, title = {Collaboration, Process Control, and Fragility in Evolutionary Product Development}, journal ={IEEE Software}, volume = {24}, number = {3}, issn = {0740-7459}, year = {2007}, pages = {96-104}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MS.2007.68}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, } | |||
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| TY - MGZN JO - IEEE Software TI - Collaboration, Process Control, and Fragility in Evolutionary Product Development IS - 3 SN - 0740-7459 SP96 EP104 EPD - 96-104 A1 - Tor Erlend F?gri, A1 - Geir Kjetil Hanssen, PY - 2007 KW - software engineering process KW - software process models KW - process implementation and change VL - 24 JA - IEEE Software ER - | |||
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MS.2007.68
This descriptive, longitudinal case study report upon the experiences from a medium-sized packaged software product supplier in their improvisation-like transition from a plan based process to Evo-an agile, evolutionary process. We focus on the organizational implications for the supplier including customer collaboration, process control and psychological comfort. We introduce the concept "process fragility" in our discussion of critical process attributes and explain why this attribute should be taken into consideration. Our findings are primarily based on qualitative analysis of successive interviews with developers, product management and involved customers. Evolutionary product development improves stakeholder engagement and developer responsiveness over plan-based processes but requires cross-organizational discipline and involved management. Our findings may give important advice to other product companies considering evolutionary development practices.
Index Terms:
software engineering process, software process models, process implementation and change
Citation:
Tor Erlend F?gri, Geir Kjetil Hanssen, "Collaboration, Process Control, and Fragility in Evolutionary Product Development," IEEE Software, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 96-104, May-June 2007, doi:10.1109/MS.2007.68
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