Background: Research shows that emotional intelligence (EI) should be used alongside cognitive intelligence during requirements change (RC) handling in Software Engineering (SE), especially in agile settings. Objective: We wanted to study the role of EI ...

Software engineering (SE) requires developers to collaborate with stakeholders, and understanding their emotions and perspectives is often vital. Empathy is a concept characterising a person’s ability to understand and share the feelings of another. ...

Software engineering teams face a number of challenges on a regular basis. Software practitioners have employed agile methods for over two decades to work around challenges such as inadequate customer collaboration, poor management practices, teamwork ...

Requirements engineering (RE) comprises human-centric activities requiring collaboration between different software development team roles. While prior research highlights the impact of personality on software development, there is limited empirical ...

The importance of teaching software ethics to software engineering (SE) students is more critical now than ever before as software-related ethical issues continue to impact society at an alarming rate. Traditional classroom methods, vignettes, role-play ...

Requirements Engineering (RE)-related activities require high collaboration between various roles in software engineering (SE), such as requirements engineers, stakeholders, developers, and so on. Their demographics, views, understanding of technologies, ...

Grounded Theory, while becoming increasingly popular in software engineering, is also one of the most misunderstood, misused, and poorly presented and evaluated method in software engineering. When applied well, GT results in dense and valuable ...

According to the principles articulated in the agile manifesto, motivated and empowered software developers---relying on technical excellence and simple designs---create business value by delivering working software to users at regular short intervals. ...

High attrition and failure in first year computer science and software engineering courses has often been linked to the personal traits and skills of students -- dividing the world into those that "get it" and those "that don't". We present several ...

Software is created by people for people working in a range of environments and under various conditions. Understanding the cooperative and human aspects of software development is crucial in order to comprehend how methods and tools are used, and ...

Self-organizing teams have been recognized and studied in various forms—as autonomous groups in socio-technical systems, enablers of organizational theories, agents of knowledge management, and as examples of complex-adaptive systems. Over the last ...

Grounded Theory (GT) is gaining popularity as research method in Software Engineering; however, it is still not widely understood. We present some patterns based on the use of GT to study Software Engineering contexts including our own experiences of ...

Grounded Theory (GT) is increasingly being used to study the human aspects of Software Engineering. Unfortunately, the Grounded Theory method is still not widely understood in the Software Engineering discipline. We present an overview of the Grounded ...

Self-organizing teams are one of the critical success factors on Agile projects - and yet, little is known about the self-organizing nature of Agile teams and the challenges they face in industrial practice. Based on a Grounded Theory study of 40 Agile ...

Agile teams are described as "self-organizing". How these teams actually organize themselves in practice, however, is not well understood. Through Grounded Theory research involving 24 Agile practitioners across 14 software organizations in New Zealand ...