"Drivers For Software Process Modeling Evolution" Mini-Track: Information Technology Project Management

Software process modeling has undergone extensive changes in the last three decades, impacting process' structure, degree of control, degree of visualization, degree of automation and integration. These changes can be attributed to several factors. This paper studies two types of these factors and their growth over the time dimension, and assesses their effect on the evolution of process modeling. An initial representation to address software process evolution was presented, then a literature survey for software process modeling was carried out which provided evidence of how the time dimension has affected the growth of problem and solution related factors that triggered process evolution. Finally, the paper concludes with a theoretical framework to serve as an illustrative model for the effects of the time dimension, problem-related factors and solution related factors on process modeling evolution. This framework can serve as to develop more advanced models for technological forecasting in software process modeling evolution.