TY - CHAP U1 - Konferenzveröffentlichung A1 - Theocharis, Georgios A1 - Kuhrmann, Marco A1 - Münch, Jürgen A1 - Diebold, Philipp ED - Abrahamsson, Pekka T1 - Is water-scrum-fall reality? On the use of agile and traditional development practices T2 - Product-focused software process improvement : 16th International Conference, PROFES 2015, Bolzano, Italy, December 2-4, 2015 N2 - For years, agile methods are considered the most promising route toward successful software development, and a considerable number of published studies the (successful) use of agile methods and reports on the benefits companies have from adopting agile methods. Yet, since the world is not black or white, the question for what happened to the traditional models arises. Are traditional models replaced by agile methods? How is the transformation toward Agile managed, and, moreover, where did it start? With this paper we close a gap in literature by studying the general process use over time to investigate how traditional and agile methods are used. Is there coexistence or do agile methods accelerate the traditional processes’ extinction? The findings of our literature study comprise two major results: First, studies and reliable numbers on the general process model use are rare, i.e., we lack quantitative data on the actual process use and, thus, we often lack the ability to ground process-related research in practically relevant issues. Second, despite the assumed dominance of agile methods, our results clearly show that companies enact context-specific hybrid solutions in which traditional and agile development approaches are used in combination. KW - development practices KW - agile methods KW - software process KW - systematic literature review KW - comparative study KW - scrum Y1 - 2015 SN - 978-3-319-26844-6 SB - 978-3-319-26844-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26844-6_11 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26844-6_11 SP - 149 EP - 166 S1 - 18 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER -