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Software processes are used for organizing work in software development projects. In order to use them for a number of projects they are described in a generic way. Since software development is highly individual, they have to be particularized (i.e., instantiated) in turn for becoming applicable in projects. A number of instantiation approaches have been proposed in recent years, but none has become a de facto standard in industry. Therefore instantiation in many software developing organizations is still manual and lacks standardization, making the procedure time consuming and expensive. This chapter describes a standardized and semi-automated instantiation approach developed at Siemens. The approach supports instantiation by ensuring that the resulting process is syntactically correct and consistent.
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Killisperger, P., Peters, G., Stumptner, M., Stückl, T. (2009). Instantiating Software Processes: An Industry Approach. In: Papadopoulos, G., Wojtkowski, W., Wojtkowski, G., Wrycza, S., Zupancic, J. (eds) Information Systems Development. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/b137171_61
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