Sharp, Helen; Giuffrida, Rosalba and Melnik, Grigori
(2012).
| URL: | http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-6... |
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| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30350-0_5 |
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Abstract
One of the hallmarks of a co-located agile team is the simple and open flow of information between its members. In a co-located setting, peripheral awareness, osmotic communication and simple information radiators support agile principles such as collective ownership, minimal documentation and simple design, and facilitate smooth collaboration. However in a dispersed agile team, where individual team members are distributed across several sites, these mechanisms are not available and information sharing has to be more explicit. Research into distributed software development has been tackling similar issues, but little work has been reported into dispersed agile teams. This paper reports on a field study of one successful partially dispersed agile team. Using a distributed cognition analysis which focuses on information propagation and transformation within the team we investigate how the team collaborates and compare our findings with those from co-located teams.
| Item Type: | Conference Item |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2012 The Authors |
| Extra Information: | Published in 'Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Volume 111, 2012, pp 62-76'. |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Computing and Communications Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Research in Computing (CRC) |
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| Item ID: | 33270 |
| Depositing User: | Helen Sharp |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Mar 2012 15:15 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2016 14:16 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/33270 |
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