A mechanism to assess the relationship between socio-technical congruence and project performance in incremental model

Sobri, W. A. W. M.; Fauzi, Shukor Sanim Mohd; Nasir, Mohd Hairul Nizam Md; Ahmad, Rodina; Suali, A.J.

doi:10.4314/jfas.v9i5s.6

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“…The system's resilience was assessed using simulation-based methods, whereas the system managers were considered decision-makers. Similarly, Sobri et al [105] presented a novel method to determine the relationship between STC and team performance using an incremental software development model.…”

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Socio-Technical Congruence as an Emerging Concept in Software Development: A Scientometric Analysis and Critical Literature Review

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Ample evidence in the literature emphasizes using socio-technical congruence (STC) to address coordination issues in distributed software development. The recent decades have shown a progressive growth in STC, resulting in an increasing number of research studies in the scientific corpora. However, no existing study has systematically analyzed and illustrated the research patterns, latest trends, and evolution in STC. This study aims to explore the knowledge structure and create evolutionary trajectories from STC publications. To achieve this aim, a scientometric analysis is performed that combined a critical literature review (CLR) of STC-related published research in the Web of Science and Scopus databases from 2000 to 2020.The scientometric analysis is conducted through four scientometric techniques: i) coword network analysis, ii) co-author network analysis, iii) co-citation analysis, and iv) document clustering with timeline analysis. The study outcomes will help understand and visualize STC's research status quo. CLR is objectively conducted to recognize the latest research topics, themes, and salient features of STC research in software development. A total of 306 bibliographic data are analyzed to generate study-related networks and density visualizations. The results reveal an evolution in the STC field from its conception to the recent developments of STC models and other related factors. This study primarily contributes to the literature by providing a systematic view related to STC research to assist software practitioners in identifying applications and key research areas. Moreover, the combination of scientometric analysis and CLR reveals key researchers, journals and conferences, institutions, prominent contributing countries, and six major research themes, including "community structure" and "socio-technical congruence" as the most prominent ones.

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Socio-Technical Congruence as an Emerging Concept in Software Development: A Scientometric Analysis and Critical Literature Review

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“…To analyze the evolution in STC domain, the keywords and keyword plus were extracted from the selected pool of studies (Datta, 2018;Cataldo et al, 2013;Portillo, 2013;Sarma et al, 2008;Colfer et al, 2016;Wang et al, 2018;Portillo-Rodríguez et al, 2014;Kwan et al, 2009;Šmite et al, 2017;Ehrlich et al, 2008;Bolici et al, 2009;Šmite et al, 2012;Jiang et al, 2012;Gokpinar et al, 2010;Valetto et al, 2008;Zhang et al, 2012;Bernardi et al, 2012;Betz et al, 2013;Marczak et al, 2009;Cataldo et al, 2009;Sobri et al, 2017;Calefato & Herbsleb, 2017;Bird et al, 2011;McLeod L, MacDonell et al, 2011;Kiani et al, 2013;Nguyen et al, 2008;Wagstrom et al, 2010;Avnet, 2016;Bettenburg, 2011;De Santana et al, 2013;Suali et al, 2017;Syeed et al, 2013;Golzadeh, 2019;Palyart et al, 2017;Zhang et al, 2019;Tamburri et al, 2019) for the period from 2008 to 2019. Furthermore, keywords facilitate the collection of additional information by considering various aspects like the research article, journal name, year of publication, and research field.…”

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“…Furthermore, Sobri et al (2017) examined the impact of STC on an incremental model by analyzing the resolution time (time to resolve a bug) in software development. By applying linear regression analysis, the results indicated that congruence (among communication logs and file changed together) has significant effects on task performance.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…• Email Data Several authors (Maheshwari et al, 2012;Datta, 2018;Sangwan & Ros, 2008;Valetto et al, 2007;Portillo-Rodríguez et al, 2014;Bolici et al, 2009;Bernardi et al, 2012;Sobri et al, 2017;Wagstrom et al, 2010;Suali et al, 2017) indicated that email repositories such as email lists and recoded communication are a source of communication between users, developers, stakeholders, and other team members. The studies highlighted that email data is usually utilized more as a data source during software development.…”

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“…This technique involves measuring and aligning the social and technical capabilities of an organization to support the multiple levels of software development. In the literature, STC is defined as a fit between task dependencies and the coordination activities among the people in an organization (Sobri et al, 2017). STC focuses on the technical and social aspects of the software development process, and fit indicates the right fusion of technical and social abilities within a distributed team.…”

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Assessing the impact of socio-technical congruence in software development: a systematic literature review

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Software development is a critical task that depends on coordination among team members and organizational activities that bring team members together. The literature indicates various techniques that have been applied to control the coordination level among team members. Notable among these techniques is social-technical congruence (STC), which helps to measure the alignment between the social and technical capabilities of an organization and teams at various stages of software development. The dynamic nature and changes of coordination requirements make STC a potential research area in this regard. The main objective of this study is to perform a systematic literature review (SLR) that recognizes and structures existing studies that represent new evolutionary trends in the field of STC. A SLR is performed of 46 publications from 4 data sources, including journals, conferences and workshop proceedings, most of which were published between 2008 and 2019. To this end, a thorough analysis is carried out to elicit the studies based on 7 research questions in this SLR. The outcome of this SLR is a set of ample research studies representing various aspects, performance impacts, factors, and evolutionary trends in the field of STC. Furthermore, STC measurement techniques are classified in two distinct groups, matrix based and social network analysis-based measures. After a systematic exploration of these aspects, this study results in new insightful features and state of art of STC. This SLR concludes that some areas still require further investigation. For instance, (1) STC-related literature exists, but only one research work mainly focuses on the risk of overwhelming STC (i.e., excessive STC measurement may overburden the software development process); (2) STC measurement techniques facilitate the identification of congruence gaps, but no attention has been given towards the unweighted social network analysis based STC measurement models; (3) STC measurement techniques are generally applied in the development phase of the project lifecycle, but these measurements are rarely used in other software development phases, such as the requirement and testing phases or all phases; and (4) The development factors that effects on STC measurement are rarely focused by researchers in the context of various domains.

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A mechanism to assess the relationship between socio-technical congruence and project performance in incremental model

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Socio-Technical Congruence as an Emerging Concept in Software Development: A Scientometric Analysis and Critical Literature Review

Socio-Technical Congruence as an Emerging Concept in Software Development: A Scientometric Analysis and Critical Literature Review

Assessing the impact of socio-technical congruence in software development: a systematic literature review

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