Joining a software development team is like moving to a new country to start employment; the immigrant has a lot to learn about the job, the local customs, and sometimes a new lan...
In this paper we report results of an informal field study of a software development team conducted during an eight week internship at the NASA/Ames Research Center. The team deve...
Cleidson R. B. de Souza, David F. Redmiles, Gloria...
Coordination of development activities is often the most crucial success factor in a software development team. Typically, teams rely on configuration management (CM) systems for...
Roger M. Ripley, Ryan Y. Yasui, Anita Sarma, Andr&...
Introducing Extreme Programming (XP) to an industrial software development team usually involves technical and professional aspects as well as social and organizational ones. The i...
This is an ethnographic study of two software development teams within the same organization, one which utilizes the Extreme Programming (XP) methodology and one which does not. T...