An empirical investigation of scenarios gained and lost in architecture evaluation meetings

Authors:
Dietmar Winkler;Stefan Biffl;Muhammad Ali Babar
Affiliations:
Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria;Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria;University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
Venue:
Proceedings of the Second ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement
Year:
2008

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Abstract

Studying the effectiveness of scenario development meetings in the software architecture process is important to improve meeting effectiveness. This paper reports initial findings from analyzing the data collected in a controlled experiment aimed at studying the effectiveness of meetings in terms of gained and lost scenarios of individuals, real and nominal (non-communicating) teams. Our findings question the effectiveness of holding meetings since more important scenarios were lost than gained in these meetings. In the study nominal teams performed better than individuals and real teams.