Software process improvement in Europe: potential of the new V-modell XT and research issues
Software process improvement in Europe: potential of the new V-modell XT and research issues
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欧洲的软件流程改进：新 V-modell XT 的潜力和研究问题
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2006
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Herbert Wetzel
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S. Biffl;D. Winkler;R. Höhn;Herbert Wetzel
欧洲工业实践的目标是支持不同领域的高价值软件生产，这导致了大量过程模型变体的开发。然而，这些不同的模式很难比较，这阻碍了欧洲层面的有效协作和软件过程改进。过程经理认为，越来越需要支持利益相关者协作、系统的过程映射和过程转换的方法，以提高他们在软件过程改进中的影响力。在这篇文章中，我们介绍了V-ModelXT(VM XT)，这是一种灵活的软件过程模型方法，最近被宣布为德国公共部门IT项目的标准，它是帮助提供统一的欧洲软件过程模型“保护伞”的有希望的机会。基于VM XT的优势，我们为软件项目的高级支持提出了研究方向：(I)有效地将业务价值转换为工程解决方案，以加强利益相关者的协作；(Ii)过程映射，使必须协调多个过程模型的项目中的协作成为可能；以及(Iii)过程“产品线”，以捕捉域和公司级别的软件过程的可变性，从而系统地帮助研究软件构建的最佳实践方法。我们讨论了这些概念、VM XT的贡献，并总结了下一步的研究和验证。版权所有©2006 John Wiley&Sons，Ltd.
The goal of European industrial practice to support high-value software production in diversified domains has led to the development of a huge number of process model variants. However, these diverse models are hard to compare, which hinders efficient collaboration and software process improvement on a European level. Process managers see a growing need for approaches that support stakeholder collaboration, systematic process mapping, and transformation of processes to improve their leverage in software process improvement. In this article we present the V-Modell XT (VM XT), a flexible software process model approach that has recently been announced as the standard for public-sector IT projects in Germany, as promising opportunity to help provide a unifying European software process model ‘umbrella’. On the basis of strengths of the VM XT, we suggest research directions for advanced support of software projects: (i) effective business value translation to engineering solutions that strengthens stakeholder collaboration, (ii) process mapping that enables collaboration in projects that have to reconcile several process models, and (iii) process ‘product lines’ to capture the variability of software processes on domain and company levels and thus systematically help investigate best-practice approaches to software construction. We discuss these concepts, the contribution of the VM XT, and conclude with next steps for research and validation. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.