Towards Distributed and Composable Process Components By

In this proposal, we describe a component approach to process support for distributed team-based software development, we characterize what is meant by process components and we discuss the opportunities of process components in terms of further development. The component approach to process support [4] reacts to two changes in software devel-opment. First, increasingly software systems are developed with distributed teams and are developed by multiple organizations- such as a prime contractor with subcontractors[1], [9],[10] Second, the move to component based tools is enabling deeper tool integration but at the same time removing process constraints. Distributed Software Development. Participants in a software group are more often geo-graphically distributed relying on the services of the internet to assist in communication. Distribution ranges from telecommuting to virtual software development teams, in which participants migrate from project to project and even from organization to organization. Distributed participants should not be required to migrate from tool-set to tool-set to be productive. Distributed projects are more likely to involve heterogeneous platforms and tool-sets. This brings about the problem of interoperability of products. If a designer use