The Role of Affect in Decision Making for Agile Processes

情感在敏捷流程决策中的作用

• 批准号: RGPIN-2018-04020
• 负责人: Benedicenti, Luigi
• 金额: $ 1.68万
• 依托单位: University of New Brunswick
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=679439
• 关键词: Role; Affect; Decision; Making; Agile

Software production has become increasingly more complex. Global spending on IT will foreseeably grow to nearly 3.5 trillion US dollars by the end of 2017. Software development projects are now often comparable to large manufacturing projects and have comparable budgets. ***In the last decade, agile processes have been developed to address the intangible nature of software development that creates software in a more iterative fashion, one piece at a time, and is guided by customer needs. Industry today claims to use agile processes, or parts thereof, for a sizeable part of their development efforts. Human beings are at the centre of this creative effort, and thus emotions and moods may affect important decisions such as requirement prioritization, architectural and design choices, and implementation strategies. Making a challenging decision can result in conflict among team members, with consequences that may hamper or even prevent a project's successful completion. Yet, the influence of these conflicts on software development has hardly been considered to date.******We propose to build an affect model for software production and test whether or not emotions and mood affect software development in a systematic way, and by how much. We will do this by conducting rigorous studies in Industry. Selected industry partners include both large organizations (IBM and Siemens) and medium and small enterprises (EduCode, Serenova, and BlueSpurs). These studies will rely on both quantitative and qualitative measures to ensure we capture the contribution of affect in the most comprehensive way possible. Our results, whether positive or negative, will shine a new light on the human aspect of software development, one that has been traditionally very difficult to qualify. The expertise gained in these studies will directly involve more 77 graduate students and benefit more than 1,100 students in five years through directed courses and participation in graduate and undergraduate research. Furthermore, if the results warrant further involvement from industry partners, we will create a centre of excellence where research results can be transferred to the industry as technology (tools) and dedicated instruction (methods). Finally, our results will be published in conferences, journals, book chapters, and books; and the study data will be made available on the University's Open Access archive. This will be crucial to guide future researchers on new discovery paths for software development and have the potential to provide billions of dollars in benefits if adopted by even a very small percentage of global Industry.

软件生产变得越来越复杂。预计到2017年底，全球在IT方面的支出将增长到近3.5万亿美元。软件开发项目现在通常可以与大型制造项目相媲美，并且有可比的预算。*在过去的十年中，开发了敏捷过程，以解决软件开发的无形本质，以更迭代的方式创建软件，一次一个部分，并由客户需求指导。今天的行业声称将敏捷过程或其部分用于其开发工作的相当大一部分。人是这种创造性工作的中心，因此情绪和情绪可能会影响重要的决策，如需求优先顺序、架构和设计选择以及实现策略。做出具有挑战性的决定可能会导致团队成员之间的冲突，结果可能会阻碍甚至阻止项目的成功完成。然而，到目前为止，这些冲突对软件开发的影响还很少被考虑。*我们建议建立一个软件生产的影响模型，并测试情绪和情绪是否以系统的方式影响软件开发，以及影响程度。我们将通过对工业进行严格的研究来做到这一点。选定的行业合作伙伴既包括大型组织(IBM和西门子)，也包括中小型企业(EduCode、Serenova和BlueSsps)。这些研究将依赖于定量和定性措施，以确保我们尽可能全面地捕捉到情感的贡献。我们的结果，无论是积极的还是消极的，都将为软件开发的人的方面带来新的曙光，这是一个传统上很难达到资格的方面。在这些研究中获得的专业知识将直接涉及77名研究生，并在五年内通过定向课程和参与研究生和本科生研究使1100多名学生受益。此外，如果研究结果需要行业合作伙伴进一步参与，我们将创建一个卓越中心，在那里研究成果可以作为技术(工具)和专门的指导(方法)转移到行业。最后，我们的成果将发表在会议、期刊、书籍章节和书籍上；研究数据将在大学的开放获取档案中提供。这将对引导未来的研究人员探索软件开发的新发现途径至关重要，如果全球行业中只有很小一部分人采用这一方法，它可能会带来数十亿美元的好处。