The developers' physical dispersion in Distributed Software Development (DSD) imposes
challenges related to awareness support during collaboration in such scenario. In this …

Knowledge about the roles developers play in a software project is crucial to understanding
the project's collaborative dynamics. In practice, developers are often classified according to …

Socio-technical congruence is an approach that measures coordination by examining the
alignment between the technical dependencies and the social coordination in the project …

Social debt is analogous to technical debt in many ways: it represents the state of software
development organisations as the result of “accumulated” decisions. In the case of social …

Many software development projects struggle with creating and communicating a testing
culture that is appropriate for the project's needs. This may degrade software quality by …

Software conflicts arising because of conflicting changes are a regular occurrence and delay
projects. The main precept of workspace awareness tools has been to identify potential …

“Social debt” in software engineering informally refers to unforeseen project cost connected
to a “suboptimal” development community. The causes of suboptimal development …

This paper explores practitioner descriptions of agile method tailoring in large-scale offshore
or outsourced enterprise projects. Specifically, tailoring of the scrum master role is …

CONTEXT: Communication, collaboration and coordination are key enablers of software
development and even more so in agile methods. The physical environment of the …

BACKGROUND: Introducing computers into primary care can have negative effects on the
doctor–patient dialogue. Little is known about such effects of mobile health IT in point-of …