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Hybrid Software and Systems Development in Practice: Perspectives from Sweden and Uganda

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Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2017)

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Abstract

Many organizations are adapting the use of hybrid software development approaches by combining traditional methods with flexible agile practices. This paper presents the initial results from the survey on the use of hybrid software and systems approaches. The results are from twenty one respondents from Sweden and Uganda. Our results show that the iterative model is the most widely used process model in both Sweden and Uganda. However, the traditional process models are also used in combination with the more agile models like Scrum. From the results, we also show that the large sized companies face the biggest problems during implementation of agility since they have to adhere to standards and control measures.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Nauman bin Ali, Rashidah Kasauli, Grischa Liebel, Kai Petersen for their help in survey design and data collection as well as all participants in the survey.

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  1. Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

    Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende & Benjamin Kanagwa

  2. Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Regina Hebig, Rogardt Heldal & Eric Knauss

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  1. University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    Michael Felderer

  2. Technical University Munich, Garching, Germany

    Daniel Méndez Fernández

  3. Brunel University London, Uxbridge, United Kingdom

    Burak Turhan

  4. Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Marcos Kalinowski

  5. University College London, London, United Kingdom

    Federica Sarro

  6. Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

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Nakatumba-Nabende, J., Kanagwa, B., Hebig, R., Heldal, R., Knauss, E. (2017). Hybrid Software and Systems Development in Practice: Perspectives from Sweden and Uganda. In: Felderer, M., Méndez Fernández, D., Turhan, B., Kalinowski, M., Sarro, F., Winkler, D. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10611. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69926-4_30

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