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Toward an understanding of the motivation Open Source Software developers
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering
EUROMICRO '03 Proceedings of the 29th Conference on EUROMICRO
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Information and Management
Human Aspects of Software Engineering (Electrical and Computer Engineering Series)
Human Aspects of Software Engineering (Electrical and Computer Engineering Series)
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Requirements Engineering Process Selection at Hewlett-Packard
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eXtreme Programming (XP) as a 'Minimum' Software Process: A Grounded Theory
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Grounded Theory Applied - Studying Information Systems Development Methodologies in Practice
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A Grounded Theory Analysis of E-Collaboration Effects for Distributed Project Management
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 08
Can distributed software development be agile?
Communications of the ACM
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The Social Nature of Agile Teams
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Discourse structure of software explanation: snapshot theory, cognitive patterns and grounded theory methods
Investigating software process in practice: A grounded theory perspective
Journal of Systems and Software
Motivation and cohesion in agile teams
XP'07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Agile processes in software engineering and extreme programming
Software process in practice: a grounded theory of the irish software industry
EuroSPI'06 Proceedings of the 13th European conference on Software Process Improvement
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We present metacodes, a new concept to guide grounded theory (GT) research in software engineering. Metacodes are high level codes that can help software engineering researchers guide the data coding process. Metacodes are constructed in the course of analyzing software engineering papers that use grounded theory as a research methodology. We performed a high level analysis to discover common themes in such papers and discovered that GT had been applied primarily in three software engineering disciplines: agile development processes, geographically distributed software development, and requirements engineering. For each category, we collected and analyzed all grounded theory codes and created, following a GT analysis process, what we call metacodes that can be used to drive further theory building. This paper surveys the use of grounded theory in software engineering and presents an overview of successes and challenges of applying this research methodology.