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Challenges of Structured Reuse Adoption — Lessons Learned

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Abstract

Adoption of structured reuse approaches in practice often poses multiple challenges. Research-industry collaborations are considered as suitable vehicle to mitigate adoption difficulties as well as to validate the applicability of scientific results. However, research co-operations with industry do not always live up to the expectations of either of the partners. Unfortunately for researchers and practitioners alike, insights behind the scenes of failed adoption and cooperation are often difficult to obtain. This hinders discussions on lessons learned by organizations during the adoption process and delays improvements.

This paper aims to mitigate this issue by presenting lessons learned from interviews we conducted with practitioners in the context of a study on software reuse in industry. The study covered a wide range of aspects, including the process of reuse adoption. One of the participating companies had undertaken two attempts to adopt a form of structured reuse. However, both attempts did not succeed as expected. In our study, we identified tacit assumptions that were related to the encountered difficulties and present the lessons learned from the adoption approach. Furthermore, we report strategies that helped us to overcome the scepticism caused by a previous unsuccessful guided collaboration.

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Notes

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    Please note that factors in the categories development context and reuse characteristics reflect tendencies and the state of the companies at the moment of the studies. Since the company aims to continuously improve their craft, this table does not necessarily reflect the situation at the time of reading.

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    Available at http://goo.gl/k9TWKE. Due to confidentiality of the data, we are unable to share the questionnaire raw response data.

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    The quotes were translated into English. They are no longer verbatim, however we attempted to stay as closely as possible to the original meaning.

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Acknowledgements

Thanks go to the participants of our study for their time, frankness, and trust, to Annabelle Klarl and Daniel Mendez-Fernandez for helpful comments on previous versions of this work, and to Maximilian Junker for support with data collection. Parts of this work were funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany (BMBF).

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Bauer, V. (2015). Challenges of Structured Reuse Adoption — Lessons Learned. In: Abrahamsson, P., Corral, L., Oivo, M., Russo, B. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9459. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26844-6_3

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