Julio Hurtado

It is widely accepted that a good software process is essential for developing quality software products. Studies show that most software companies apply hybrid processes to develop software, that is, an organised combination of traditional and agile practices.
Software process improvement and adaptation have been researched for several years, but there is less experience when it comes to hybrid software processes. Therefore, it is not always clear which combination of practices is best suited to a given context, be it for the company or a given project. Moreover, the most suitable process also depends on a particular objective.

In this talk we will talk about dynamic adaptation for
Hybrid Software Processes (DynaTail), which aims at achieving
three purposes: (1) to enable the adaptation of the organisational process in
according to the project context when pursuing a given goal; (2) to provide a framework for testing different modifications of processes and contexts in order to obtain better results for a particular project. (3) We describe the method by illustrating it with an implementation example inspired by a Chilean software company. The method promises to be useful to perform a quantitative evaluation of hybrid software processes.