Paper Info
Title
Studying relevant socio-technical aspects of requirements-driven collaboration in agile teams
Abstract
Requirements engineering requires intensive collaboration among team members. Agile methods also require constant collaboration among those involved in the project. While working on certain interdependent tasks, team members develop social and technical relationships that instigate socio-technical dependencies. The main goal of our research is to investigate socio-technical aspects that underlie requirements-driven collaboration among agile teams and their influence on project performance. In this paper we present our research approach to achieve such goal and briefly report on preliminary findings. A survey revealed that communication and awareness are the most relevant socio-technical aspects that underlie requirements-driven collaboration in agile teams. Initial findings of a case study aiming to identify requirements-driven collaboration patterns suggest that teams well aware of each other have lesser communication gaps and require lesser rework. Findings will contribute to a better understanding of the relationship between collaboration and performance in agile teams.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/EmpiRE.2013.6615213
EmpiRE
Keywords
Field
DocType
agile teams,software management,team working,communication,requirements-driven collaboration patterns,project performance,awareness,socio-technical aspects,software prototyping,project management,groupware,formal specification,formal verification,requirements engineering,requirements-driven collaboration,interviews,collaboration
Interdependence,Collaborative software,Knowledge management,Software prototyping,Requirements engineering,Agile software development,Formal specification,Sociotechnical system,Engineering,Project management
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2329-6348
2
0.39
References 
Authors
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Irum Inayat19911.04
Sabrina Marczak225936.37
Siti Salwah Salim313116.62