The socio-cultural environment in the software process modeling

With regard to the increasing complexity and heterogenization of organizations, the technological and organizational dimensions of software process modeling are passing through an integration period. In this paper, we present a methodological framework to analyze software construction models' cultural feasibility. A symbiotic multi-level software process cycle model (SMPCM) has been designed. This model inter-relates the socio-cultural, scientific/technological and paradigmatic environments. The authors describe the engineering-level processes and how these processes are developed and inter-related among themselves and with the SMPCM environments. Participative and symbiotic methodologies are described in order to model the organization and to reveal its culture, and in order to design and improve dynamic, flexible and evolutive software process models. The proposed methodologies are validated in a study prototype and preliminary results are analyzed.