A Lightweight Approach for Knowledge Sharing in Distributed Software Teams
PAKM '08 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management
A review of awareness in distributed collaborative software engineering
Software—Practice & Experience - Focus on Selected PhD Literature Reviews in the Practical Aspects of Software Technology
Exploring a Bayesian and linear approach to requirements traceability
Information and Software Technology
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Information and Software Technology
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Today's large software projects are often characterised by distributed environments with numerous developers separated in space and/or time. This separation means that the common understanding and tacit knowledge that is a feature of closely colocated project teams is very hard to come by. As a consequence, relatively simple tasks such as identifying functionally related modules or finding individuals who are experts in aspects of the system become more challenging and time-consuming. This paper presents a Continuum of Relevance Index (CRI) model that uses information gathered from developer IDE interactions to generate orderings of relevant tasks, project artefacts and developers. A case study is used to demonstrate how the model can be used to attain a shared knowledge and common understanding of the extent to which tasks, artefacts and developers are relevant in a group development work context.