TY - CHAP U1 - Konferenzveröffentlichung A1 - Kuhrmann, Marco A1 - Diebold, Philipp A1 - Münch, Jürgen A1 - Tell, Paolo A1 - Garousi, Vahid A1 - Felderer, Michael A1 - Trektere, Kitija A1 - McCaffery, Fergal A1 - Linssen, Oliver A1 - Hanser, Eckhart A1 - Prause, Christian T1 - Hybrid software and system development in practice: waterfall, scrum, and beyond T2 - ICSSP'17 : proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Software and System Process : July 5-7, 2017, Paris, France N2 - Software and system development faces numerous challenges of rapidly changing markets. To address such challenges, companies and projects design and adopt specific development approaches by combining well-structured comprehensive methods and flexible agile practices. Yet, the number of methods and practices is large, and available studies argue that the actual process composition is carried out in a fairly ad-hoc manner. The present paper reports on a survey on hybrid software development approaches. We study which approaches are used in practice, how different approaches are combined, and what contextual factors influence the use and combination of hybrid software development approaches. Our results from 69 study participants show a variety of development approaches used and combined in practice. We show that most combinations follow a pattern in which a traditional process model serves as framework in which several fine-grained (agile) practices are plugged in. We further show that hybrid software development approaches are independent from the company size and external triggers. We conclude that such approaches are the results of a natural process evolution, which is mainly driven by experience, learning, and pragmatism. KW - agile software development KW - software process KW - hybrid development approaches KW - survey Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-1-4503-5270-3 SB - 978-1-4503-5270-3 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1145/3084100.3084104 DO - https://doi.org/10.1145/3084100.3084104 SP - 30 EP - 39 S1 - 10 PB - The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. CY - New York, NY ER -