Stigmergic coordination in FLOSS development teams: Integrating explicit and implicit mechanisms
Stigmergic coordination in FLOSS development teams: Integrating explicit and implicit mechanisms
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10.1016/j.cogsys.2015.12.003
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发表时间：
2016-06-01
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3.9
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Crowston, Kevin
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作者：
Bolici, Francesco;Howison, James;Crowston, Kevin
绝大多数关于基于团队的项目中的协调的文献都借鉴了显性(例如计划、反馈)和隐式协调机制(例如心理导图、共享知识)之间的概念分离。这种分析性的区别在解释如何在组织中达成协调方面存在一些局限性，这些组织的特征是分布式团队、稀少的面对面会议以及模糊和不断变化的授权线，例如在自由/自由开放源码软件(FLOSS)开发中。通过分析来自两个FLOSS项目的经验例证，我们强调了一个特殊模型的存在，即污名协调，它包括隐式和显式机制的各个方面。工作产品本身(隐含的)和共享它的特征(显式的)在帮助软件开发人员在依赖项出现时管理它们方面扮演了一个被低估的角色。我们通过使用现有的协调框架，考虑到代码库本身在每个步骤中可能扮演的角色，在现有文献的基础上发展了这一论点。我们还讨论了支持分布式团队中耻辱协调的特征和实践，以及对未来研究的建议。(C)2016年提交人。Elsevier B.V.出版。这是一篇基于CC by License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).的开放获取文章
The vast majority of literature on coordination in team-based projects has drawn on a conceptual separation between explicit (e.g. plans, feedback) and implicit coordination mechanisms (e.g. mental maps, shared knowledge). This analytic distinction presents some limitations in explaining how coordination is reached in organizations characterized by distributed teams, scarce face to face meetings and fuzzy and changing lines of authority, as in free/libre open source software (FLOSS) development.Analyzing empirical illustrations from two FLOSS projects, we highlight the existence of a peculiar model, stigmergic coordination, which includes aspects of both implicit and explicit mechanisms. The work product itself (implicit) and the characteristics under which it is shared (explicit) play an under-appreciated role in helping software developers manage dependencies as they arise. We develop this argument beyond the existing literature by working with an existing coordination framework, considering the role that the codebase itself might play at each step. We also discuss the features and the practices to support stigmergic coordination in distributed teams, as well as recommendations for future research. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).