Making globally distributed software development a success story

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This volume features papers from the International Conference on Software Process (ICSP 2008), held in Leipzig, Germany, on May 10-11, 2008. The conference focused on the theme of making globally distributed software development successful. Software developers navigate a rapidly changing technological landscape with limited resources, facing increasing pressure to deliver products quickly and with high quality. Global competition compels organizations to cut costs by rationalizing processes, outsourcing development activities, reusing existing software, and evolving systems to meet new demands while minimizing project risks. In response, new and modified processes are emerging, including agile methods and plan-based product line development. The popularity of Open Source, COTS, and community-developed software is rising. Outsourcing and the need for 24/7 development require well-defined processes for coordinating geographically and organizationally separated teams. The accepted papers encompass completed research and advanced work-in-progress across various areas of software and systems development processes, including agile methodologies, CMMI, innovative techniques for process representation and analysis, process tools and metrics, and the simulation and modeling of software processes. Contributions based on real-world experience or derived from industrial or open-source software development were particularly encouraged.