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

Context Lack of coordination may create significant problems between work teams, this
problem is even most critical when team workers are geographically distributed as it results …

In large-scale open-source software projects, where developers are often distributed across
the entire planet, coordination among developers is crucial. To estimate whether a state of …

Social network methods are frequently used to analyze networks derived from Open Source
Project communication and collaboration data. Such studies typically discover patterns in …

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 …

Software development is always a challenging undertaking and it requires high
commitments from individuals who participate in it. Software development often involves …

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 …

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

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 …

We describe a method for determining coordination requirements in collaborative software
development. Our method uses" live" data based on developer activity rather than relying on …