Keynote on "Current State and Future Perspectives of Software Process Technology"
This keynote reviews the technical foundations of our field in terms of the rationale for formal process notations and the objectives of explicitly representing processes, analyzing those formal descriptions, monitoring the progress of those processes as they are enacted, and automating portions of those enactments. It clusters the research in this field into four chronologically ordered technology waves - Process Formalisms, Process Adaptive Tools, Process Centered Environments, and Process Middleware. It then assesses the state of the art in this field, identifies several remaining challenges, and suggests where the field should be headed. Finally, it closes with review of what has changed in the last few years.