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2006
Conference Paper
Titel
Software process definition for multi-organizational development in the aerospace domain
Abstract
Many projects in challenging domains such as the aerospace domain turn out to be of particular criticality due to the collaboration efforts required between different organizations and teams involved in very different disciplines. Enabling smooth collaboration of multi-organizational, multi-disciplinary teams is a key for the successful development of complex software-dependent systems. Defining suitable collaboration procedures for each new project ad-hoc can be a costly and risky undertaking. Organizations performing more than one single project together should consider the idea of integrating their processes in a more consistent way by addressing and integrating both organization-specific process models and process terminology. In this paper, we present initial results and experience from process integration conducted at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The development processes of different departments are being integrated with the processes of the prime suppliers. In particular, we focus on eliciting the requirements for development process descriptions and infrastructure from different stakeholders' viewpoints as part of the scoping of an appropriate multi-organizational software process management infrastructure. The methodology is illustrated by a concrete case study performed at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). In addition, selected lessons learned and consequences for process management support in the aerospace domain are sketched.