TY - GEN
T1 - Examining life at the code face
AU - Avram, Gabriela
AU - Bannon, Liam J.
AU - Sheehan, Anne
AU - Sigfridsson, Anders
AU - Sullivan, Daniel K.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - In this paper, we present the work of a research team at the University of Limerick, Ireland, focusing on work practices in a distributed software development environment. Adopting ethnographically-informed methods, the researchers have observed the activity of a software development team from an Irish subsidiary of a multinational company over a period of 18 months. The paper presents our perspective on the existing literature, the theoretical foundations of our work, and the approach we have taken. This research work is ongoing and in this paper we provide a selection of vignettes which the authors found of interest for a deeper analysis. Our aim is to understand the impact of the global distribution of software development on collaborative work practices in this particular work setting.
AB - In this paper, we present the work of a research team at the University of Limerick, Ireland, focusing on work practices in a distributed software development environment. Adopting ethnographically-informed methods, the researchers have observed the activity of a software development team from an Irish subsidiary of a multinational company over a period of 18 months. The paper presents our perspective on the existing literature, the theoretical foundations of our work, and the approach we have taken. This research work is ongoing and in this paper we provide a selection of vignettes which the authors found of interest for a deeper analysis. Our aim is to understand the impact of the global distribution of software development on collaborative work practices in this particular work setting.
KW - collaborative work practices
KW - distributed teams
KW - human actors
KW - software engineering
KW - workplace studies
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77953550570&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/1370114.1370116
DO - 10.1145/1370114.1370116
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77953550570
SN - 9781605580395
T3 - Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering
SP - 5
EP - 8
BT - Proceedings of the 2008 International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, CHASE '08, Co-located with the 13th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2008
T2 - 2008 International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, CHASE '08, Co-located with the 13th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2008
Y2 - 10 May 2008 through 18 May 2008
ER -