Modeling Software Process Configurations for Enterprise Adaptability

Modern enterprises are expected to continuously evolve and adapt to uncertain environmental conditions and evolving customer trends. Adaptability in software processes enable enterprises to respond to changing situations by selecting software process configurations that help best meet enterprise-level business goals. Conventional methods of modeling and designing software processes are limited in their ability to visualize these software process configurations, reason about them and select an appropriate configuration which meet functional and non-functional requirements while considering enterprise-level perspectives. As part of our PhD project, we propose a requirements-based software process adaptability framework that considers software process adaptability, first at a process-centric and then at an agent-centric level. Key constructs for this framework are discussed and illustrated by using the DevOps approach as an example.