A Culture-Centered Multilevel Software Process Cycle Model

In this paper a culture-centered multilevel software process cycle model (MPCM) is presented. This model interrelates the socio-cultural, scientific/technological and paradigmatological environments. The proposed model is composed of three environments made up of the ecological universe, engineering, management, development and evaluation levels which represent the process cycle, and the lines of “what”, “who” and “how”. These lines characterize the processes under development, the profile of the human beings involved and the type of tools used. MPCM considers cultural, social, organizational and personnel-related issues, normally absent in the traditional software process models. This paper focuses in the description of the organization process of engineering level and how this process is developed. A cultural procedure of the MPCM is described in order to model the organization and to determine the capacities or behavioral competencies that a person (user or developer) has to reallocate him/her a role in the software process. The validation performed gives place to a first verification of every two stages (People Capacities Determination and Construction of Conceptual Models) of the cultural procedure of the MPCM.