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Applying Extreme Engineering and Personality Factors to Improve Software Development Under a Heavyweight Methodology

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Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2017)

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Companies of the defense sector use heavyweight methodologies such as the V-model to develop large systems in which reliability is a crucial factor. This model has well-known disadvantages but the necessity to maintain all the phases under control and its mandatory use by the public institutions prevent the companies from altering the methodology. This paper describes a process improvement proposal for the V-model based on the concepts of Extreme-Engineering, team creation and task allocation strategies that take into account the personality of workers and its impact on productivity and quality. The study has been performed in a real company of the defense sector. The proposal has been tested and validated using a multiparadigm simulation model that makes use of the company historical data.

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This work has been partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology (grant TIN2016-76956-C3-3-R) with ERDF funds and the Andalusian Plan for Research, Development and Innovation (grant TIC-195).

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  1. University of Cádiz, Avda. de la Universidad de Cádiz, 10, 11519, Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain

    Mercedes Ruiz

  2. Navantia, Carretera de la Carrraca s/n, 11100, San Fernando, Cádiz, Spain

    Germán Fuentes

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  2. Technical University Munich, Garching, Germany

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  3. Brunel University London, Uxbridge, United Kingdom

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  4. Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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  5. University College London, London, United Kingdom

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Ruiz, M., Fuentes, G. (2017). Applying Extreme Engineering and Personality Factors to Improve Software Development Under a Heavyweight Methodology. In: Felderer, M., Méndez Fernández, D., Turhan, B., Kalinowski, M., Sarro, F., Winkler, D. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10611. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69926-4_37

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