Software engineering nowadays largely relies on agile methods to carry out software
development. In often highly distributed organizations, agile teams can develop …

Coordination is important in software development. Socio-Technical Congruence (STC) is
proposed to measure the match between coordination requirements and actual coordination …

Abstract In Global Software Engineering (GSE) there are a number of communication and
coordination challenges which are brought about by the factor of distance. Measuring Socio …

Distributed software development allows firms to leverage cost advantages and place work
near centers of competency. This distribution comes at a cost--distributed teams face …

Developing a complex new product requires the firm both to deconstruct that product into
subsystems and to create an organizational structure aligned with the product architecture …

Context: An extensive body of work has examined socio-technical activities in software
development; however, the availability of tools to enable these studies is limited. Aim: We …

The scenario-based approach to the specification and simulation of reactive systems has
attracted much research efforts in recent years. While the problem of synthesizing a …

Abstract Information system (IS) researchers have long noted that IS analysts need to
understand users' needs if they are to design better systems and improve project outcomes …

Networks of collaboration between engineers are reflected in traces of developers' activity in
version control systems (VCSs). Extracting data from Git repositories is an essential task for …

Software development requires effective communication, coordination and collaboration
among developers working on interdependent modules of the same project. The need for …