Title :
Collaboration, Process Control, and Fragility in Evolutionary Product Development
Author :
Faegri, Tor Erlend ; Hanssen, Geir Kjetil
Author_Institution :
SINTEF Inf. & Commun. Technol.
Abstract :
Evolutionary development is an agile software engineering approach that embraces continuous customer collaboration to assist the construction of a gradually evolving product. Its benefits and challenges are revealed in a longitudinal study we performed of a medium-sized company´s transition from a traditional plan-based software process to an evolutionary process
Keywords :
software maintenance; software process improvement; agile software engineering approach; continuous customer collaboration; evolutionary product development; evolutionary software process; plan-based software process; Collaboration; Packaging; Process control; Product development; Quality management; Research and development; Research and development management; Sequential analysis; Software engineering; System testing; process implementation and change; software engineering process; software process models;
Journal_Title :
Software, IEEE