Towards a broader understanding of coordination in software engineering: a case study of a software development team

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dc.contributor.authorPanjer, Lucas David Greaves
dc.contributor.supervisorDamian, Daniela
dc.contributor.supervisorStorey, Margaret-Anne
dc.date.accessioned2008-08-15T16:57:35Z
dc.date.available2008-08-15T16:57:35Z
dc.date.copyright2008en_US
dc.date.issued2008-08-15T16:57:35Z
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Computer Science
dc.degree.levelMaster of Science M.Sc.en_US
dc.description.abstractCoordination of people, processes, and artifacts is a significant challenge to successful software engineering that is growing as the scale, distribution, and complexity of software projects grow. This thesis presents an exploratory case study of coordination of interdependent work in a practicing software development team. Qualitative analysis of stakeholder interviews was used to develop nine theoretical propositions that describe coordination behaviours. One proposition was refined by quantitatively exploring the structure of explicit dependencies between work items in relation to their resolution times. Structure measures drawn from social network analysis were used to quantify the structure of explicit dependencies between work items, revealing some lower resolution times were associated with degree centrality measures, but that network structures only explain a small proportion of the variance in resolution times. The results are compared with existing theories of coordination in software engineering and directions for further research are outlined.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/1075
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectsoftware engineeringen_US
dc.subjectsocial network analysisen_US
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Sciences and Engineering::Applied Sciences::Computer scienceen_US
dc.titleTowards a broader understanding of coordination in software engineering: a case study of a software development teamen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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