Socio-technical congruence is an approach that measures coordination by examining the
alignment between the technical dependencies and the social coordination in the project …

We report on a large-scale empirical study investigating the relevance of socio-technical
congruence over key basic software quality metrics, namely, bugs and churn. In particular …

The success of software development projects depends on carefully coordinating the effort
of many individuals across the multiple stages of the development process. In software …

Software projects are frequently distributed across multiple sites. While this practice takes
advantage of local expertise and differential cost structures, there is a hidden coordination …

Among the numerous reasons for software project failure, coordination problems are
especially salient. Prior studies on coordination in software development are confined to …

Empirical evidence suggests that both autonomy and interdependence are important
considerations in team design. But how do interdependence and autonomy affect team …

The idea of congruence between the structure of technical and work dependencies has
been demonstrated in commercial software development but has not been explored in detail …

Global interorganizational software development projects are becoming common, but their
management and the creation of practices and processes to support collaboration seem to …

Understanding simultaneous cooperative and competitive (coopetitive) dynamics in cross-
functional software development teams is fundamental to the success of software …

Coordination is important in large-scale software development because of the many people
involved and the complex dependencies present in software tasks. Even small …