Software package distributions form large dependency networks maintained by large
communities of contributors. My PhD research will consist of analysing the evolution of the …

Successful software projects require collaboration between team members. Efficient
collaboration relies on both technical and social linkages. In this paper, we investigate …

Information systems outsourcing has not only become prevalent but also involves an
increasingly wide range of activities beyond the traditional programming, testing …

Earlier research has focused on technical debt (TD). While numerous issues connected to
non-technical aspects of software development (SD) that are equally worthy of” debt” status …

Developing software is knowledge-intensive activity, requiring extensive technical
knowledge and awareness. The abstract part of development is the social interactions that …

Collaboration relies on efficient communication among developers. Many development
teams use instant messaging owing to its synchronous and real‐time nature. Despite the …

In the past few years, software engineering researchers have adopted social network
analysis techniques to understand collaboration patterns in global software teams. In this …

Effective communication among members of a software development team is considered to
be a critical factor in the success of software projects. Social network analysis is a promising …

IBM's Jazz initiative offers a state-of-the-art collaborative development environment (CDE)
facilitating developer interactions around interdependent units of work. In this paper, we …

Today's dynamic and iterative development environment brings significant challenges for
software project management. In distributed project settings," management by walking …