This Special Issue on Drivers of Business Process Development: Business, IT, Compliance follows the 10th Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support (BPMDS'09), organized in conjunction with CAISE'09, which was held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2009. The special issue is targeted at both researchers and practitioners in the information systems (in the broad sense) community with a focus on business process development and business application software development. The papers in this special issue reflect this focus; they include extensively modified and blind reviewed versions of three papers that were initially presented at the workshop and a new contribution from the business application software development community.