Background: Software reference architectures are becoming widely adopted by\norganizations that need to support the design and maintenance of software\napplications of a shared domain. For organizations that plan to adopt this\narchitecture-centric approach, it becomes fundamental to know the return on\ninvestment and to understand how software reference architectures are designed,\nmaintained, and used. Unfortunately, there is little evidence-based support to help\norganizations with these challenges.\nMethods: We have conducted action research in an industry-academia collaboration\nbetween the GESSI research group and everis, a multinational IT consulting firm based\nin Spain.\nResults: The results from such collaboration are being packaged in order to create\nguidelines that could be used in similar contexts as the one of everis. The main result of\nthis paper is the construction of empirically-grounded guidelines that support\norganizations to decide on the adoption of software reference architectures and to\ngather evidence to improve RA-related practices.\nConclusions: The created guidelines could be used by other organizations outside of\nour industry-academia collaboration. With this goal in mind, we describe the guidelines\nin detail for their use.
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