Paper Info
Title
Enhancing Agile Team Collaboration Through the Use of Large Digital Multi-touch Cardwalls.
Abstract
Agile software development has become mainstream, and with it many tools have been developed to support Agile software development. Nonetheless, studies show, that most Agile software teams still also use physical cardboards for their daily work. This is error prone and causes a lot of extra effort to keep both in sync. In our research project we conducted an interview study about the reasons for this media break. Based on the findings we developed visualization and interaction concepts for an Agile cardwall using an extra-large multi-touch wall display which provides Agile teams the lightweight collaboration workspace for their Agile meetings. We implemented the concepts in the software prototype a Wall, and evaluated the usability of a Wall in a user study. The evaluation indicates that a Wall enables and encourages team work due to the large size of the wall, the easy accessibility and visibility of the needed information, and the integration with existing issue tracking tools. This suggests that augmenting digital cardwalls with large interactive touch technology and integration with task tracking systems is a useful way to support effective collaborative Agile software development processes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/978-3-319-57633-6_8
AGILE PROCESSES IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND EXTREME PROGRAMMING (XP 2017): 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, XP 2017
Keywords
Field
DocType
Agile software development,Cardwalls,Large wall displays,Multi-touch,Tool,Software processes,Collaboration
Teamwork,Software engineering,Computer science,Workspace,Visualization,Usability,Knowledge management,Agile usability engineering,Agile software development,Software,Multi-touch
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
283
1865-1348
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
12
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Martin Kropp1266.65
Craig Anslow214025.77
Magdalena Mateescu3333.18
Roger Burkhard400.34
Dario Vischi500.34
Carmen Zahn6709.48