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This paper reflects on our work in deriving targeted methodologies to develop IT applications and content in a developing world environment. This paper argues that a common thread over more than a decade of experience in building Information and ...

Self-organizing teams are one of the critical success factors on Agile projects - and yet, little is known about the self-organizing nature of Agile teams and the challenges they face in industrial practice. Based on a Grounded Theory study of 40 Agile ...

The driver/navigator model of pair programming needs to be revised. We propose a model of programming in pairs where roles are based on test-driven development. Each programmer uses a different view of a shared development environment. One member of the ...

This paper reports on the initial results of an eye-tracking research of collaborative program development, more particularly, in the case of pair programming. An eight-weeks long empirical study was conducted in industrial-like settings. The study ...

Developing mobile applications is a challenging endeavor where technology and creativity are essential. Agile methodologies seem to be particularly adapted to the development of mobile applications; mobile applications have a limited scope and user ...

Leadership is the ability to influence people, leading them to behave in a certain way in order to achieve the group's goals. Leadership is independent of job titles and descriptions. Usually, however, in order to lead, leaders need the power derived ...

Software development is a collaborative activity that may lead to conflicts when changes are performed in parallel by several developers. Direct conflicts arise when multiple developers make changes in the same source code entity, and indirect conflicts ...

Social software (SoSo) is defined by Farkas as tools that (1) allow people to communicate, collaborate, and build community online (2) can be syndicated, shared, reused or remixed and (3) let people learn easily from and capitalize on the behavior and ...

This paper describes the social practice of distributed party programming as a natural extension of pair programming in a distributed context with two or more software developers working together. To this end we provide an overview of the Eclipse plug-...

Today, most developers work in parallel inside private workspaces to ensure stability during programming, but this provokes isolation from what co-workers are doing. Isolation may result in conflicts, which must be detected as early as possible to avoid ...

Recent tools have been designed to help developers understand the potential runtime structure of objects in a system at compile time. Such tools let developers interactively explore diagrams of object structure. But do developers ask questions about ...

Understanding the strategies that developers use during coding activities is an important way to identify challenges developers face and the corresponding opportunities for tools, languages, or processes to better address the challenges and more ...

Leveraging the abundant community resources, e.g. campus students, programming fans, software amateurs, is promising to be a flexible and effective approach for relieving the enterprise's IT resource shortage. However, the concern about confidential ...

<u>Background.</u> Even though the amount of researches related to the behavior of software development teams has significantly increased in recent years, researches focusing on motivation as an alternative to lead software projects to success are still ...

Cost estimation is important for planning, scheduling, budgeting and pricing of software development. Previous research has mainly focused on improving estimates and the associated processes. However, there is still a lack of research on human and ...

Small organizations have been claimed to manage their requirements in ways that bear no relation to what the textbooks say, and what is taught in undergraduate courses. This paper explores software engineering (SE) practices in five small and medium-...

This paper presents a case study that reports the findings of a preliminary ethnographic study (35 days of fieldwork over a period of two months) conducted at a service-based software company. The focus of the study was on understanding the human-...

Today, large enterprises create a significant body of commercially available software. As a result, the key stakeholders include not only those typically responsible for software development, but also stakeholders not typically involved in software ...