Compliance of agilized (software) development processes with safety standards

Hybrid software development, meant as a combination of traditional and agile methods/practices, has become a reality in safety-critical systems engineering. The spreading of hybrid software development stems from the impossibility to face the manyfold challenges via the definition of a process by the book. In this context, compliance management becomes challenging and the role of existing means for compliance should be clarified/rethought. In this position paper, we discuss the challenges and we propose our compliance management vision, which is being implemented in the context of the EU ECSEL AMASS project.