Seeing the forest and the trees: Focusing team interaction on value and effort drivers

Matthias Book, Simon Grapenthin, Volker Gruhn

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Abstract

Large-scale information system development is often plagued by defects and deadline overruns that can be traced to insufficient communication within the project team, particularly between stakeholders from the business, technical and management side. Although agile process models put a strong emphasis on team communication, they provide only little support for focusing the communication on the most relevant issues. We therefore introduce the concept of so-called "interaction rooms", where teams work with a pragmatic combination of model sketches and annotations to foster understanding of the system and its business domain, to reveal risks and uncertainties, and discuss those system aspects that are most critical for project success.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT 20th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, FSE 2012
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Event20th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, FSE 2012 - Cary, NC, United States
Duration: 11 Nov 201216 Nov 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT 20th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, FSE 2012

Conference

Conference20th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, FSE 2012
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityCary, NC
Period11/11/1216/11/12

Other keywords

  • communication
  • risks
  • teams
  • value-orientation

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