The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Supporting enterprise stakeholders in software projects
Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering
The problem of private information in large software organizations
Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Software and Systems Process
The transformation of open source software
MIS Quarterly
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This paper presents novel ideas for understanding how software engineering teams communicate and coordinate. We utilize these ideas to understand how these teams should be constructed and what individuals and managers can do to ensure that teams perform at high levels. Our view is based on numerous observations and interactions with enterprise software engineering teams and influenced by economic models of information sharing. We propose that neither a fully top-down nor bottom-up approach is entirely suitable for teams; rather teams must be cognizant of this issue and work to embrace both models of information flow. This, in turn, can be facilitated by the role of intercessor who seeks to properly guide, direct, and curate both top-down and bottom-up information flows.