Context: With an increase in Agile, Lean, and DevOps software methodologies over the last
years (collectively referred to as Continuous Software Development (CSD)), we have …

A software architecture manifests the major early design decisions. These early decisions
determine the system's development, deployment and evolution. Thus, making better …

Product Owners have an important role in the agile and hybrid software development
process. While this role is supposed to maximize the value of a product, there seem to be …

Building secure systems is difficult for many reasons. This paper deals with two of the main
challenges:(i) the lack of security expertise in development teams and (ii) the inadequacy of …

When developing systems where safety and security are important aspects, these aspects
have to be given special attention throughout the development, in particular in the …

Communication is a key success factor of distributed software projects. Poor communication
has been identified as a main obstacle to successful collaboration. Global projects are …

Value stream mapping (VSM) has been successfully applied in the context of software
process improvement. However, its current adaptations from Lean manufacturing focus …

This article investigates relationships between media, mood, and communication in teams,
and studies how they are related to project success. Team projects are an essential part of …

Context & motivation: More and more software projects today are security-related in one way
or the other. Many environments are initially not considered security-related and no security …

Abstract Engineering Design Communication (EDC) is fundamental to almost all
Engineering Design activities as it provides the ability for knowledge and information to be …