How do developers collaborate? Investigating GitHub heterogeneous networks

Oliveira, Gabriel P.; Moura, Ana Flávia C.; Batista, Natércia A.; Brandão, Michele A.; Hora, André; Moro, Mirella M.

doi:10.1007/s11219-022-09598-x

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“…The comprehensive list of attributes provides a valuable reference for project managers, HR professionals, and team leads to assess and select team members based on a holistic understanding of their capabilities. Collaboration, for example, has been shown to enhance decision-making [28] and has provided insights to improve developers' professional status by acquiring new skills [38]. Therefore, combining social and technical aspects is crucial for achieving success in ASD Our findings shed light on attributes that might have been overlooked in previous team formation strategies.…”

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confidence: 78%

Preliminary Results of Mapping Capabilities for Agile Software Team Formation

Cunha,

Santos,

Perkusich

et al. 2023

Anais Do III Workshop Brasileiro De Engenharia De Software Inteligente (ISE 2023)

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Context: Team formation is critical in agile software development, directly affecting project effectiveness and performance. Ensuring teams possess the necessary capabilities is vital for success. However, the specific capabilities used in practice for team composition remain unclear. Aims: Our objective is to understand the evolution, relevance, and practical application of capabilities used in agile team formation and gain real-world insights. Method: We conducted a comparative analysis, contrasting the software engineers’ capabilities identified in a prior review with those used in agile team formation based on recent studies. To gain insights into real-world practices, we interviewed a key practitioner from a software organization through a semi-structured interview. Results: The study highlights the most impactful capabilities for agile team formation, providing valuable guidance for practitioners and researchers to enhance software engineering practices. Conclusions: This research advances the understanding of essential attributes for successful agile team formation and offers valuable implications on underlying aspects and challenges faced in the practical application of these capabilities.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 78%

Preliminary Results of Mapping Capabilities for Agile Software Team Formation

Cunha,

Santos,

Perkusich

et al. 2023

Anais Do III Workshop Brasileiro De Engenharia De Software Inteligente (ISE 2023)

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“…For practitioners, our findings on key capabilities essential for forming agile teams are a practical guide for team selection, emphasizing the integration of social and technical skills for ASD success [75], [79]. Attributes like "Person's attitudes," "Person's initiative," "Leadership," and "Creative problemsolving" are vital for dynamic teams but often overlooked.…”

Section: Implications For Research and Practicementioning

confidence: 98%

An Insight into the Capabilities of Professionals and Teams in Agile Software Development: An Update of the Systematic Literature Review

Cunha,

Perkusich,

Guimaraes

et al. 2024

JCOMSS

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Agile Software Development (ASD) confronts the challenge of effectively measurement and predicting the capabilities of software engineers and teams to improve individual performance, team efficiency, and project success. This study delves into exploring and identifying gaps and research prospects in assessing and predicting human capabilities within ASD. Thus, we conducted a Systematic Literature Review, building upon a prior review from 2001 to 2016 by different authors. To encompass primary studies published after 2016, we extended to 2022. Further, our study extends the scope of the previous SLR with a new research question to identify key attributes in publications focused on agile team formation. Our findings disclosed new attributes for evaluating and predicting the capabilities of professionals engaged in ASD, such as Openness to Creativity and Agile Adaptation. These attributes boost individual performance, contribute to ameliorated team productivity, and facilitate the precise composition of teams. Moreover, this study expands our prior study, providing more details on capability identification and research design, extends the analysis of attributes and prediction models, provides a more granular discussion of discoveries and comparisons with prior review, and more indepth discussion about practical implications and thoroughly examines study validity. We observed that technical metrics were more prevalent than social and innovative aspects. Also, the study identified the prediction of agile capabilities as an emerging research domain necessitating further scrutiny due to the scarcity of existing models. The majority of studies (78%) supplied detailed metric descriptions, facilitating the evolution of the capabilities repository and supporting future investigations in this domain. Ultimately, these findings can aid agile practitioners in formulating team composition decisions based on individuals' and teams' appraised and foreseen abilities.

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