Fireteam: a small-team development practice in industry

Zhang, He; Huang, Huang; Shao, Dong; Huang, Xin

doi:10.1145/3368089.3417068

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“…Salameh et al [34,35] used a variety of methods (e.g., case study and interview) to conduct a series of studies on the organization of this agile development team. Zhang et al [45] analyzed the organization of fireteam, one agile development team, via their four key activities in software development. Similarly, this study focuses on agile software teams using DevOps & microservices to explore their organization, benefits, and issues from an immersive perspective.…”

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A Cross-Company Ethnographic Study on Software Teams for DevOps and Microservices: Organization, Benefits, and Issues

Zhou,

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Zhang

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Context: DevOps and microservices are acknowledged to be important new paradigms to tackle contemporary software demands and provide capabilities for rapid and reliable software development. Industrial reports show that they are quickly adopted together in massive software companies. However, because of the technical and organizational requirements, many difficulties against efficient implementation of the both emerge in real software teams. Objectives: This study aims to discover the organization, benefits and issues of software teams using DevOps & microservices from an immersive perspective. Method: An ethnographic study was carried out in three companies with different business, size, products, customers, and degree of globalization. All the three companies claimed their adoption of DevOps and microservices. Seven months (cumulative) of participant observations and nine interviews with practitioners were conducted to collect the data of software teams related to Dev-Ops and microservices. A cross-company empirical investigation using grounded theory was done by analyzing the archive data. Results: The virtual software teams were organized for adopting DevOps and microservices under the stubborn organizational structure. The adoption of DevOps and microservices brings benefits to rapid delivery, ability improvements and burden reduction, whilst the high cost and lack of practical guidance were emerged. Two major issues of adopting DevOps and microservices in software teams (i.e. fragmentary DevOps and abuse of microservices) were found common in the companies. Moreover, our observations and interviews reflect that in software teams, the relationship between DevOps and microservices is not significant, which differs from the relationship described in the previous studies. Four lessons for practitioners and four implications for researchers were discussed based on our findings. Conclusion: Our findings contribute to the understanding of the organization, benefits and issues of adopting DevOps and microservices from an immersive perspective of software teams.

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A Cross-Company Ethnographic Study on Software Teams for DevOps and Microservices: Organization, Benefits, and Issues

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Zhang

et al. 2022

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“…Uma equipe de desenvolvimento de software, a depender do tamanho do projeto, pode ser uma equipe enorme, o que dificulta o gerenciamento do pessoal. Pensando nessa questão, o Fireteam surge como uma prática na qual equipes muito grandes são desmembradas em equipes menores autogerenciáveis que variam entre três e quatro membros (ZHANG et al, 2020). Ainda em relação aos pontos positivos elencados pelos participantes da pesquisa, oito veem pontos positivos nos Frameworks, sete apontaram pontos positivos nas Técnicas, seis marcaram os modelos e cinco citaram os métodos.…”

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A Survey Research on the Use of Project Management Approaches in Agile Software Development

Carvalho¹,

Oliveira²

19th CONTECSI International Conference on Information Systems and Technology Management

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Project management is unavoidable in today's world as there is a need for continuous improvement across different types of projects. However, project management is not a trivial task, given the multitude of factors that need to be taken into account. Therefore, it is essential that projects effectively apply techniques, methods, software, methodologies, that is, approaches to achieve their goals. Thus, this work aims to identify which are the project management approaches used in agile software development, as well as their main strengths and weaknesses. To achieve the objective of this research, a survey was conducted with 30 software project managers. From this survey, it was possible to identify the main approaches used by these professionals, and these approaches were grouped into eight categories: Software, Methodologies, Methods, Techniques, Tools, Frameworks, Practices and Models. Finally, it was possible to identify 12 strengths of the approaches, as well as seven weaknesses.Keywords: Software Project Management; Project Management Approaches; Survey; agile methods UMA PESQUISA SURVEY SOBRE O USO DE ABORDAGENS DE GERENCIAMENTO DE PROJETOS NO DESENVOLVIMENTO ÁGIL DE SOFTWARERESUMO: O gerenciamento de projetos é inevitável no mundo de hoje, pois há uma necessidade de se obter melhorias contínuas por meio de diferentes tipos de projetos. No entanto, o gerenciamento de projetos não é uma tarefa trivial, tendo em vista a multiplicidade de fatores que precisam ser levados em consideração. Diante disso, é essencial que os projetos apliquem de forma eficaz técnicas, métodos, softwares, metodologias, ou seja, abordagens para alcançarem seus objetivos. Assim, este trabalho tem como objetivo identificar quais são as abordagens de gerenciamentos de projetos usadas no desenvolvimento ágil de software, assim como seus principais pontos fortes fracos. Para atingir o objetivo desta pesquisa, foi conduzido um survey com 30 gerentes de projetos de software. A partir deste survey foi possível identificar as principais abordagens utilizadas por esses profissionais, sendo que essas abordagens foram agrupadas em oito categorias: Softwares, Metodologias, Métodos, Técnicas, Ferramentas, Frameworks, Práticas e Modelos. Por fim, foi possível identificar 12 pontos fortes das abordagens, assim como sete pontos fracos.

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A Cross-Company Ethnographic Study on Software Teams for DevOps and Microservices: Organization, Benefits, and Issues

Zhou

Huang²,

Zhang

et al. 2022

2022 IEEE/ACM 44th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice (ICSE-SEIP)

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Fireteam: a small-team development practice in industry

Cited by 4 publications

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A Cross-Company Ethnographic Study on Software Teams for DevOps and Microservices: Organization, Benefits, and Issues

A Cross-Company Ethnographic Study on Software Teams for DevOps and Microservices: Organization, Benefits, and Issues

A Survey Research on the Use of Project Management Approaches in Agile Software Development

A Cross-Company Ethnographic Study on Software Teams for DevOps and Microservices: Organization, Benefits, and Issues

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