Seeing the forest and the trees: focusing team interaction on value and effort drivers

Authors:
Matthias Book;Simon Grapenthin;Volker Gruhn
Affiliations:
University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany;University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany;University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
Venue:
Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT 20th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering
Year:
2012

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Abstract

Large-scale information system development is often plagued by defects and deadline overruns that can be traced to insufficient communication within the project team, particularly between stakeholders from the business, technical and management side. Although agile process models put a strong emphasis on team communication, they provide only little support for focusing the communication on the most relevant issues. We therefore introduce the concept of so-called "interaction rooms", where teams work with a pragmatic combination of model sketches and annotations to foster understanding of the system and its business domain, to reveal risks and uncertainties, and discuss those system aspects that are most critical for project success.