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 ...

Students need to understand the assessment of requirements correctness while building software systems. It helps produce products that meet the stakeholder objectives. This poster illustrates an experiment conducted as a tool-based collaborative ...

Privacy and security are complex topics, raising a variety of considerations and requirements that can be challenging to implement in software development. Determining the security and privacy related factors that have an influence on software systems ...

Same month SEN issue published one year ago had this column titled as "The Human Side of the Tech Industry: Key Drivers Behind the Tech Talent Dilemma." It discussed the Tech industry hypergrowth and how the tech industry is challenged in terms of ...

66% of software projects fail, according to the Standish Group's 2020 Chaos Report [1]. When we see that number, it comes to our mind the 1968 NATO conference on Software Engineering where leaders came together to discuss the state of software ...

We can easily misunderstand the prevalence of software products packed with features over the years as an indicator to our success in impressing customers; thinking that we don't need to do something more than just keep shipping features one after ...

Background: Collaboration among software engineers through face-to-face discussions in teams has been promoted since the adoption of agile methods. However, these discussions might demote the contribution of software engineers who are introverts, ...

Based on Grounded Theory guidelines, we interviewed 27 IT professionals to investigate how organizations pursuing continuous delivery should organize their development and operations teams. In this paper, we present the discovered organizational ...

In this notes paper we report on a preliminary qualitative evaluation of a gamification framework to address collaboration issues in software engineering. Findings suggest that the use of game elements indeed is prone to motivate software developers to ...

Context: Interdependence deals with the dependence on others that people encounter when executing their tasks. This dependence is influenced by technical, social and psychological factors that affect the way the work is done. Software development is ...

Job Rotation is an organizational practice in which individuals are frequently moved from a job (or project) to another in the same organization. Studies in other areas have found that this practice has both negative and positive effects on individuals' ...

Context: Onboarding is a process that helps newcomers become integrated members of their organisation. Successful onboarding programs can result in increased performance in conventional organisations, but there is little guidance on how to onboard new ...

Context: Given the acknowledged need to understand the people processes enacted during software development, software repositories and mailing lists have become a focus for many studies. However, researchers have tended to use mostly mathematical and ...

Context: Research indicates that software quality, to a large extent, depends on cooperation within software teams [1] Since software development is a creative process that involves human interaction in the context of a team, it is important to ...

IBM's Jazz initiative offers a state-of-the-art collaborative development environment (CDE) facilitating developer interactions around interdependent units of work. In this paper, we analyze development data across two versions of a major IBM product ...

Building tools to help software developers communicate effectively requires a deep understanding of their communication dynamics. To date we do not have good comprehension of why developers talk to each other as a result of some events in the life of ...

There are many evidences in the literature that the use self-managing teams has positive impacts on several dimensions of team effectiveness. Agile methods, supported by the Agile Manifesto, defend the use of self-managing teams in software development ...

Collaboration is a key aspect of the agile philosophy of software development. As a software system matures over iterations, trends of developer collaboration can offer valuable insights into project dynamics. In this paper, we study evolution of ...

<u>Background.</u> Even though the amount of researches related to the behavior of software development teams has significantly increased in recent years, researches focusing on motivation as an alternative to lead software projects to success are still ...

Members of software project teams have specific roles and responsibilities which are formally defined during project inception or at the start of a life cycle activity. Often, the team structure undergoes spontaneous changes as delivery deadlines draw ...