Discovering the shared understanding dynamics of large software teams

  • Authors:
  • Jorge Aranda;Ramzan Khuwaja;Steve Easterbrook

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Toronto;IBM Toronto Lab;University of Toronto

  • Venue:
  • CASCON '07 Proceedings of the 2007 conference of the center for advanced studies on Collaborative research
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Reaching project goals demands from team members the creation and communication of detailed and vastly heterogeneous project information. Although no team member needs to know every piece of project information, each of them depends extensively on knowledge generated by other parties. Their aggregated information-seeking and information-sharing activities form a web of interactions that develops the team's shared understanding of their project. Current approaches to study this phenomenon are unsatisfactory, as they tend to overlook its inherent complexity. To address this issue, we present a proposal to analyze shared understanding dynamics that draws from cognitive and organizational theories, as well as from Kruchten's 4+1 views of software architecture.