MATRIX BASED PROBLEM DETECTION IN THE APPLICATION OF SOFTWARE PROCESS PATTERNS

Chintan Amrit, Jos Van Hillegersberg

2007

Abstract

Software development is rarely an individual effort and generally involves teams of developers. Such collaborations require proper communication and regular coordination among the team members. In addition, coordination is required to sort out problems due to technical dependencies that exist when components of one part of the architecture requires services or data input from components of another part of the architecture. The dynamic allocation of the different tasks to people results in various socio-technical structure clashes (STSCs). These STSCs become more pronounced in an Agile Software Development environment and managerial intervention is constantly required to alleviate problems due to STSCs. In this paper we propose a technique based on dependency matrices that detects STSCs in the organizational process structure. We illustrate this technique using two examples from Organizational and Process Pattern literature.

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Amrit C. and Van Hillegersberg J. (2007). MATRIX BASED PROBLEM DETECTION IN THE APPLICATION OF SOFTWARE PROCESS PATTERNS . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-90-0, pages 316-320. DOI: 10.5220/0002395503160320


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@conference{iceis07,
author={Chintan Amrit and Jos Van Hillegersberg},
title={MATRIX BASED PROBLEM DETECTION IN THE APPLICATION OF SOFTWARE PROCESS PATTERNS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={316-320},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002395503160320},
isbn={978-972-8865-90-0},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - MATRIX BASED PROBLEM DETECTION IN THE APPLICATION OF SOFTWARE PROCESS PATTERNS
SN - 978-972-8865-90-0
AU - Amrit C.
AU - Van Hillegersberg J.
PY - 2007
SP - 316
EP - 320
DO - 10.5220/0002395503160320