Konstruktion modularer Vorgehensmodelle: methodisches Erstellen und Pflegen von Entwicklungsstandards und Vorgehensmodellen für Prozessingenieure

The definition and implementation of a development process is an accepted approach to arrange efficient project structures and to optimize them, continuously. Development processes help to structure the manifold tasks in a software development project. They describe best practices and deliverables to support people to schedule and carry out tasks. For this reason many enterprises have already introduced a process or evaluate an introduction. Beside standard process models like the V-Modell XT, many individual and organization-specific processes are developed. A harmonization is often required because of the number of available processes. Hence, processes are often tailored or customized to fit the needs of an organization or a project. The creation of such variants is often not sufficiently structured. For instance, if the original process is updated due to a new release, consistency-problems may occur. Several approaches from research and industry try to answer such problems using engineering principles. An extensive modularization of a development process and defined variationand maintenance processes are considered being promising. Referring to product line approaches one tries to establish development process standards for development process model, too. Such standards contain well-proven concepts and contents, and build the foundation of a process-platform. Process components that are published on such a platform are consequently reused by several releases and variants of a process. The main topic of this thesis is themethodical design of process models and development process standards. We describe a concept for a configuration-based, modular development based on a common process-platform. This platform consists of a metamodel and a life cycle model describing development and maintenance of process models. We present the Integrated Modeling-Approach for Process Models to support process engineers. The bases of the thesis are self-contained process components. They define units for development, structuring, variation and deployment of process contents. We provide a metamodel that precisely describes process components as the core of a configurationbased platform. Furthermore we describe a set of processes for the development and maintenance of process components and process model variants. Results of this thesis are presented and validated by means of samples from the V-Modell XT context.