  Recently, the awareness of the importance of distributed software development
has been growing in the software engineering community. Economic constraints,
more and more outsourcing of development activities, and the increasing spatial
distribution of companies come along with challenges of how to organize
distributed development.
  In this article, we reason that a common process understanding is mandatory
for successful distributed development. Integrated process planning, guidance
and enactment are seen as enabling technologies to reach a unique process view.
  We sketch a synthesis of the software process modeling environment SPEARMINT
and the XCHIPS system for web-based process support. Hereby, planners and
developers are provided with collaborative planning and enactment support and
advanced process guidance via electronic process guides (EPGs). We describe the
usage of this integrated environment by using a case study for the development
of a learning system.
