TY  - GEN
A1  - Matthies, Christoph
T1  - Feedback in Scrum
BT  - Data-Informed Retrospectives
T2  - 2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings (ICSE-Companion)
N2  - Improving the way that teams work together by reflecting and improving the executed process is at the heart of agile processes. The idea of iterative process improvement takes various forms in different agile development methodologies, e.g. Scrum Retrospectives. However, these methods do not prescribe how improvement steps should be conducted in detail. In this research we investigate how agile software teams can use their development data, such as commits or tickets, created during regular development activities, to drive and track process improvement steps. Our previous research focused on data-informed process improvement in the context of student teams, where controlled circumstances and deep domain knowledge allowed creation and usage of specific process measures. Encouraged by positive results in this area, we investigate the process improvement approaches employed in industry teams. Researching how the vital mechanism of process improvement is implemented and how development data is already being used in practice in modern software development leads to a more complete picture of agile process improvement. It is the first step in enabling a data-informed feedback and improvement process, tailored to a team's context and based on the development data of individual teams.
KW  - agile
KW  - software development
KW  - Scrum
KW  - retrospective
KW  - software process improvement
Y1  - 2019
SN  - 978-1-7281-1764-5
SN  - 978-1-7281-1765-2
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-Companion.2019.00081
SN  - 2574-1934
SN  - 2574-1926
SP  - 198
EP  - 201
PB  - IEEE
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rein, Patrick
A1  - Ramson, Stefan
A1  - Lincke, Jens
A1  - Felgentreff, Tim
A1  - Hirschfeld, Robert
T1  - Group-Based Behavior Adaptation Mechanisms in Object-Oriented Systems
JF  - IEEE software
N2  - Dynamic and distributed systems require behavior adaptations for groups of objects. Group-based behavior adaptation mechanisms scope adaptations to objects matching conditions beyond class membership. The specification of groups can be explicit or implicit.
KW  - group-based behavior adaptation
KW  - lively groups
KW  - ContextErlang
KW  - entity-component-system
KW  - predicated generic functions
KW  - active layers
KW  - reactive object queries
KW  - context groups
KW  - implied methods
KW  - object-oriented languages
KW  - software engineering
KW  - software development
KW  - contextual-variability modeling
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2017.4121224
SN  - 0740-7459
SN  - 1937-4194
VL  - 34
IS  - 6
SP  - 78
EP  - 82
PB  - Inst. of Electr. and Electronics Engineers
CY  - Los Alamitos
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Leopold, Henrik
A1  - Mendling, Jan
A1  - Guenther, Oliver
T1  - Learning from Quality Issues of BPMN Models from Industry
JF  - IEEE software
N2  - Many organizations use business process models to document business operations and formalize business requirements in software-engineering projects. The Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), a specification by the Object Management Group, has evolved into the leading standard for process modeling. One challenge is BPMN's complexity: it offers a huge variety of elements and often several representational choices for the same semantics. This raises the question of how well modelers can deal with these choices. Empirical insights into BPMN use from the practitioners' perspective are still missing. To close this gap, researchers analyzed 585 BPMN 2.0 process models from six companies. They found that split and join representations, message flow, the lack of proper model decomposition, and labeling related to quality issues. They give five specific recommendations on how to avoid these issues.
KW  - process model quality
KW  - modeling guidelines
KW  - Business Process Model and Notation
KW  - BPMN
KW  - industry study
KW  - software engineering
KW  - software development
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2015.81
SN  - 0740-7459
SN  - 1937-4194
VL  - 33
SP  - 26
EP  - 33
PB  - Inst. of Electr. and Electronics Engineers
CY  - Los Alamitos
ER  -