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Extending the Dependency Taxonomy of Agile Software Development

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Collaboration and Technology (CRIWG 2013)

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Systems and software development is a collaborative activity and agile software development epitomises collaboration by formalising how teams and their customers work together to develop a software product. Collaboration is achieved, in part, using mechanisms for coordinating interdependent work. Coordination is defined as the managing of dependencies and this study explores the nature of dependencies in software development projects. Firstly, this study extends an existing taxonomy of dependencies based on evidence from agile projects by showing that three agile and one non-agile project show the same pattern of dependencies. Secondly, this study finds that knowledge dependencies are the most frequently occurring dependencies in these small co-located software projects. The key contribution of this research is a better understanding of the dependencies in software development projects. Understanding dependencies can lead to more informed selection of coordination mechanisms, and ultimately more effective collaboration.

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    Diane E. Strode

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  1. Victoria University of Wellington, 6140, Wellington, New Zealand

    Pedro Antunes  & Allan Sylvester  & 

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of São Paulo (USP), 05508-070, São Paulo, Brazil

    Marco Aurélio Gerosa

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, S7N 5C9, Saskatoon, Canada

    Julita Vassileva

  4. University of Nebraska at Omaha, 69182, Omaha, NE, USA

    Gert-Jan de Vreede

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Strode, D.E. (2013). Extending the Dependency Taxonomy of Agile Software Development. In: Antunes, P., Gerosa, M.A., Sylvester, A., Vassileva, J., de Vreede, GJ. (eds) Collaboration and Technology. CRIWG 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8224. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41347-6_20

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