A Management System for Evolving Development Processes

Development processes are inherently difficult to manage. Tools for managing development processes have to cope with continuous process evolution. The management system AHEAD is based on long-term experience gathered in different disciplines (software, mechanical, or chemical engineering). AHEAD provides an integrated set of tools for evolving both process definitions and their instances. Furthermore, changes at the definition level may be propagated to the instance level and vice versa (round-trip process evolution). Finally, AHEAD deals with both incomplete and incorrect process knowledge by supporting untyped process instances and allowing for deviations of process instances from their definitions, respectively.

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