Collaborative Research: SHF: Small: Distributed Fragmented Software Design Meetings

协作研究：SHF：小型：分布式碎片化软件设计会议

• 批准号: 2210813
• 负责人: Janet Burge
• 金额: $ 13.28万
• 依托单位: Colorado College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-01 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2210813&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; SHF; Small; Distributed

While many software development teams were already operating in a distributed manner, COVID-19 has caused a seismic shift to remote work across the entire tech industry. This shift appears to be long-term: many organizations are planning or have already decided to make hybrid work or full work-from-home a permanent option. Design remains as important as ever in these settings. A common practice that has emerged is distributed fragmented software design meetings. These meetings, conducted on a regular schedule and online, bring together a core team to address day-to-day design issues. Unfortunately, the discontinuity and lack of proper tool support cause the meetings not to be as effective and efficient as they could and should be, with many varied issues arising that negatively affect the quality of the resulting software and the schedule by which it is being produced. By studying several teams engaged in distributed, fragmented softwaredesign meetings, this research project will document the issues encountered in distributed, fragmented software design meetings and the impact these issues have on the project. It will then design, implement,evaluate, and make available new tools and practices to overcome the issues. Finally, it will adapt the tools and lessons learned for use in the classroom, so students become better prepared for future careers in which they must engage in hybrid and remote software design.A guiding concept throughout the project will be important design bits (IDBs), short excerpts from past design meetings that capture information that may be relevant to future design meetings. IDBs will serve as the primary lens for analyzing the design meetings to be studied and as the organizing unit of support in the planned novel tools. Combining video analysis, interviews, surveys, tool design, and assessment, the research will uncover current practices, strengths, issues, and opportunities for improvement, as well as create tools that support distributed, fragmented software design meetings through lightweight capture and retrieval of IDBs. The insights learned will enable organizations large and small to evaluate their practices and implement improvements; the novel open-sourced tools will be adoptable by any software organization to support their distributed, fragmented software design meetings; and the classroom interventions will be integratable in typical software engineering capstone courses as taught in nearly any computing program.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

虽然许多软件开发团队已经以分布式方式运作，但COVID-19已经导致整个科技行业向远程工作的巨大转变。这种转变似乎是长期的：许多组织正在计划或已经决定将混合工作或完全在家工作作为一种永久选择。在这些环境中，设计仍然像以往一样重要。一种常见的做法是分散的软件设计会议。这些会议定期在线举行，汇集了一个核心团队来解决日常设计问题。不幸的是，由于不连续和缺乏适当的工具支持，会议没有达到它们本可以和应该达到的效果和效率，出现了许多不同的问题，对最终软件的质量和制作软件的时间表产生了不利影响。通过研究几个团队参与分布式的，分散的软件设计会议，这个研究项目将记录分布式的，分散的软件设计会议中遇到的问题，以及这些问题对项目的影响。然后，它将设计、实施、评估和提供新的工具和做法，以克服这些问题。最后，它将调整的工具和经验教训，在课堂上使用，使学生成为更好地为未来的职业生涯，他们必须从事混合和远程软件设计。整个项目的指导概念将是重要的设计位（IDBs），从过去的设计会议，捕捉信息，可能是相关的未来的设计会议的简短摘录。工发理事会将作为分析所要研究的设计会议的主要透镜，并作为支助计划的新工具的组织单位。结合视频分析，访谈，调查，工具设计和评估，研究将揭示当前的实践，优势，问题和改进的机会，以及通过轻量级捕获和检索IDB创建支持分布式，分散的软件设计会议的工具。学到的见解将使大大小小的组织能够评估他们的实践并实施改进;任何软件组织都可以采用这些新颖的开源工具来支持他们的分布式、碎片化的软件设计会议;和课堂干预将被集成在典型的软件工程顶点课程，几乎在任何计算程序中教授。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被视为通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，

项目成果

Exploring a Research Agenda for Design Knowledge Capture in Meetings

• DOI: 10.1109/chase58964.2023.00013
• 发表时间: 2023-05
• 期刊: 2023 IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE)
• 作者: Liz Seero;J. Burge;A. Soria;A. Hoek