Name of the participant: Philipp Diebold
Description of the IT research project: Today, software development processes play an important role, especially in security-critical domains such as the automotive or aviation industry, which are characterized by many different regulatory requirements, e.g. ISO standards, guidelines or laws. Especially due to these regulations, it is not or only with difficulty possible to keep up with the current trend in the area of software development towards the use of agile procedures and methods, as is possible, for example, in the development of information systems. Especially in these industries, companies can benefit from the advantages of agile development, such as shorter release cycles, better customer integration, higher employee satisfaction, etc.
In this research project, a method is to be developed to solve the described challenges, in order to use finely granular elements (mostly of technical nature) from agile development, so-called agile practices, and to improve the current process with respect to various goals, such as speed or customer satisfaction, within the framework of regulatory (and other organizational) process requirements.
The solution method is based on a knowledge base of agile practices, which contains a description, classification and, if necessary, evidence of their influence on various improvement goals. In the agile potential analysis, various inputs such as the current process, defined improvement goals and context information (including the regulatory requirements) are used as input variables to extract a set of agile practices that are potentially applicable in this context, the use of which can be associated with corresponding benefits.
The goal of the project is to use the developed method, especially in regulatory environments, to anchor a certain degree of agility in the development and the associated process, which generates a significant added value in the area of software process improvement (SPI).
Software Campus partners: Fraunhofer Verbund IuK-Technologie, Robert Bosch GmbH
Implementation period: 01.03.2015 – 31.07.2017