Paper Info
Title
Detecting Coordination Problems in Collaborative Software Development Environments
Abstract
Software development is rarely an individual effort and generally involves teams of developers collaborating to generate good reliable code. Among the software code there exist technical dependencies that arise from software components using services from other components. The different ways of assigning the design, development, and testing of these software modules to people can cause various coordination problems among them. We claim that the collaboration of the developers, designers and testers must be related to and governed by the technical task structure. These collaboration practices are handled in what we call Socio-Technical Patterns. The TESNA project (Technical Social Network Analysis) we report on in this paper addresses this issue. We propose a method and a tool that a project manager can use in order to detect the socio-technical coordination problems. We test the method and tool in a case study of a small and innovative software product company.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1080/10580530701777156
Information Systems Management
Keywords
DocType
Volume
software component,socio-technical coordination problem,software module,project manager,good reliable code,collaborative software development environments,software development,detecting coordination problems,innovative software product company,software code,collaboration practice,tesna project,information technology,social networks,collaboration
Journal
abs/1006.1243
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
Information Systems Management, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 57 - 70, 2008
13
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.66
24
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
chintan amrit116019.11
jos van hillegersberg264267.00