Uncovering critical coordination requirements through content analysis

Authors:
Kelly Blincoe;Giuseppe Valetto;Daniela Damian
Affiliations:
Drexel University, USA;Drexel University, USA;University of Victoria, Canada
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2013 International Workshop on Social Software Engineering
Year:
2013

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe a way to identify the critical coordination needs that exist in a software development project through post-mortem content analysis and manual coding of task pairs. Our coding scheme provides guidelines on how to score the strength of the relationship of task pairs based on four characteristics. Such a method and coding scheme has the potential to become a research tool that can be used within the community of researchers and practitioners interested in the socio- technical aspects of software development to identify coordination needs for their analysis in future studies. We seek community feedback to help improve the proposed coding scheme.