Experimental Evaluation of ’On-Site Customer’ XP Practice on Quality of Software and Team Effectiveness

Wojciechowski, Adam; Wesołowski, Maciej; Complak, Wojciech

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-16961-8_45

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“…When continuously implementing new code, regular feedback on the quality of the code in the form of communication is enabled (Xiaohu et al, 2004). On-Site customer / whole team When locating the team and the customer nearby, a positive impact on communication quality was observed (Wojciechowski, Wesolowski, & Complak, 2010). The co-located office space serves as a communication channel (e.g., Dorairaj, Noble, & Malik, 2012;Svensson & Höst, 2005).…”

Section: Continuous Integrationmentioning

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The Role of Social Agile Practices for Direct and Indirect Communication in Information Systems Development Teams

Hummel¹,

Rosenkranz²,

Holten³

2015

CAIS

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Methods for Agile information systems development (ISD) are widely accepted in industry. One key difference in comparison to traditional, plan-driven ISD approaches is that Agile ISD teams rely heavily on direct, informal face-toface communication instead of indirect and formal documents, models, and plans. While the importance of communication in Agile ISD is generally acknowledged, empirical studies investigating this phenomenon are scarce. We empirically open up the "black box" of the Agile ISD process to enhance the knowledge about the communication mechanisms of Agile ISD teams. We conducted a case study at two medium-sized ISD companies. As our primary data collection technique, we carried out semi-structured interviews, which we complemented with observations and, in one case, a survey. Our study's main contribution is a set of so-called social Agile practices that positively impact the direct communication of team members. Our data suggests including the Agile practices co-located office space, daily stand-up meeting, iteration planning meeting, pair programming, sprint retrospective, and sprint review in this set. Furthermore, we investigate the role of more formal, indirect communication in Agile ISD projects. We highlight areas in which formal documents remain important so that a trade-off between indirect and direct communication is necessary.

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Section: Continuous Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of Social Agile Practices for Direct and Indirect Communication in Information Systems Development Teams

Hummel¹,

Rosenkranz²,

Holten³

2015

CAIS

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“…"Experimental Evaluation of 'On-Site Customer' XP Practice on Quality of Software and Team Effectiveness" by Wojciechowski, Wesolowski and Complak [5] provided a description of experiment based on extended version of educational game eXtreme89 as well as results collected in experiment and analysis of quality of software produced by teams working according to different software creation paradigms.…”

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Information systems in distributed environments

Mishra

Münch

Mishra

2011

SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes

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This is a report from a one-day second international workshop on "Information Systems in Distributed Environments" (ISDE), which was organized in conjunction with the OnTheMove Federated Conferences & Workshops (OTM 2010) at HersonissosCrete, Greece, on October 26, 2010. The main focus of this workshop was to provide a venue for the discussion of challenges related to the development, operation, and maintenance of distributed information systems, and their creation in the context of global development projects. Further dissemination of research results will lead to an improvement of distributed information system development and deployment across the globe.

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“…[15][16][17][18][21][22][23][24]46 An overview of all identified activities and the references is presented in Table 6. 23,39,57 or a Subject Matter Expert, 45,54 on-site is considered as the main differentiator when it comes to clearly communicate responsibilities 39,44 and priorities. 39 Working closely with the team establishes a partnership of trust and teamwork, which is considered as a success factor.…”

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Are Product Owners communicators? A multi‐method research approach to provide a more comprehensive picture of Product Owners in practice

Unger‐Windeler

Klünder

Reuscher

et al. 2020

J Software Evolu Process

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Product Owners have an important role in the agile and hybrid software development process. While this role is supposed to maximize the value of a product, there seem to be several scattered results on how they achieve this, as well as what actually constitutes this role in practice. To consolidate current research results and to further analyze the key attribute of Product Owners, we conducted a multi-method research approach spanning a systematic mapping study and a consecutive case study in a hybrid development environment. The results of the mapping study states that Product Owners are communicators. We further investigated on this and used the shadowing technique to observe three Product Owners' communication activities. The results support that statement, as the gained data reveal that Product Owners spend 65% of their time in meetings. But rather than just providing the team with the necessary requirements for the product under development, Product Owners need this time to synchronize and align their work, streamline the agile process of large-scale Scrum, discuss team-based topics, and to solve upcoming issues addressed by the team. These results contribute to draw a more comprehensive picture of the important but yet complex role of Product Owners in practice.

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Experimental Evaluation of ’On-Site Customer’ XP Practice on Quality of Software and Team Effectiveness

Cited by 8 publications

References 2 publications

The Role of Social Agile Practices for Direct and Indirect Communication in Information Systems Development Teams

The Role of Social Agile Practices for Direct and Indirect Communication in Information Systems Development Teams

Information systems in distributed environments

Are Product Owners communicators? A multi‐method research approach to provide a more comprehensive picture of Product Owners in practice

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