During the last few decades, agile methodologies have become the most widely used
software development methods. Agile methodologies provide great customer satisfaction …

Waterfall and Extreme Programming are two software project methods used for project
management. Although there are a number of opinions comparing the two methods …

Inspired by research on the role of affect in marital interactions, the authors examined
whether affective interaction dynamics occurring within a 5-minute slice can predict pair …

Emotions play a crucial role in the practice of designing in teams. Engineers engaged in the
activity of designing complex technical systems constantly negotiate dis-agreements with …

This paper is part of a wider action research project taking place at a secondary school in
South Wales, UK. Â The overarching aim of the project is to examine the potential for …

Abstract Information systems are designed, constructed, and used by people. Therefore, a
software design process is not purely a technical task, but a complex psycho-socio-technical …

This was a qualitative grounded theory study of subjective experience in 'agile'software
development teams, which were conceptualized as complex adaptive socio-technical …

Novice pair programmers find communication within their pairs to be one of the greatest
difficulties they face when starting to pair program. However, developers cannot pair …

Pair programming claims to provide benefits over and above those offered by a programmer
working alone. In particular, a number of studies have suggested that pair programming …

Video observation has been used for ethnographic studies for decades and is becoming
more popular in engineering design research. This paper presents some of the lessons …