Organizational integrity: facing the challenge of the global software process

Abstract

Emerging technologies influence the way software is produced and deployed. Software component developers build virtual organizations to produce properly interoperating components by connecting their software processes to a “global software process”. Its support challenges the traditional concepts of software engineering environments and requires organizational integrity to become the key design issue. This encompasses the common understanding of structure, state and evolution of three structures: product, process and organization forms, shared among all process participants: developers and tools. We propose a process modeling language that achieves organizational integrity through structural unity: by managing a unified simple model for the three structures.