Hybrid Software and System Development in Practice: Waterfall, Scrum, and Beyond

Abstract

Software and system development faces numerous challenges of rapidly changing markets. To address such challenges, companies and projects design and adopt speciĄc development approaches by combining well-structured methods and Ćexible agile practices. Yet, the number of methods and practices is large and the actual process composition is often carried out in an ad-hoc manner. This paper reports on a survey on hybrid software development approaches. We study which approaches are used in practice, how diferent approaches are combined, and what contextual factors inĆuence the use and combination of hybrid software development approaches. This summary refers to the paper Hybrid Software and System Development in Practice: Waterfall, Scrum, and Beyond [Ku17]. This paper was published as full research paper in the proceedings of the International Conference on Software System Process