Detecting coordination problems in collaborative software development environments

被引：19

作者：

Amrit, Chintan ^{[1
]}

van Hillegersberg, Jos ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Twente, NL-7500 AE Enschede, Netherlands

来源：

INFORMATION SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT | 2008年 / 25卷 / 01期

关键词：

collaboration; collaboration technology; information systems development; information technology; electronic collaboration; social networks; software development;

D O I：

10.1080/10580530701777156

中图分类号：

TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];

学科分类号：

0812 ;

摘要：

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.

引用

页码：57 / 70

页数：14

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