Information Flow within a Dispersed Agile Team: A Distributed Cognition Perspective
Information Flow within a Dispersed Agile Team: A Distributed Cognition Perspective
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分散敏捷团队内的信息流：分布式认知视角
DOI：
10.1007/978-3-642-30350-0_5
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Grigori Melnik
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作者：
H. Sharp;R. Giuffrida;Grigori Melnik
共处一地的敏捷团队的标志之一是其成员之间简单且开放的信息流。在共处一地的环境中，外围意识、渗透式通信和简单的信息辐射器支持集体所有权、最少文档和简单设计等敏捷原则，并促进顺利协作。然而，在分散的敏捷团队中，各个团队成员分布在多个站点，这些机制不可用，信息共享必须更加明确。对分布式软件开发的研究一直在解决类似的问题，但关于分散的敏捷团队的工作却很少。本文报告了对一个成功的部分分散敏捷团队的实地研究。使用专注于团队内信息传播和转换的分布式认知分析，我们调查团队如何协作，并将我们的发现与来自同一地点的团队的结果进行比较。
One of the hallmarks of a co-located agile team is the simple and open flow of information between its members. In a co-located setting, peripheral awareness, osmotic communication and simple information radiators support agile principles such as collective ownership, minimal documentation and simple design, and facilitate smooth collaboration. However in a dispersed agile team, where individual team members are distributed across several sites, these mechanisms are not available and information sharing has to be more explicit. Research into distributed software development has been tackling similar issues, but little work has been reported into dispersed agile teams. This paper reports on a field study of one successful partially dispersed agile team. Using a distributed cognition analysis which focuses on information propagation and transformation within the team we investigate how the team collaborates and compare our findings with those from co-located teams.