Context: Software has become ubiquitous in every corner of modern societies. During the
last five decades, software engineering has also changed significantly to advance the …

CONTEXT: Agile software development changes the nature of collaboration, coordination,
and communication in software projects. OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to understand the …

Truck Factor (TF) is a metric proposed by the agile community as a tool to identify
concentration of knowledge in software development environments. It states the minimal …

Background: Evolution of open source projects frequently depends on a small number of
core developers. The loss of such core developers might be detrimental for projects and …

The utility of source code, as of other knowledge artifacts, is predicated on the existence of
individuals skilled enough to derive value by using or improving it. Developers leaving a …

Developer turnover is inevitable on software projects and leads to knowledge loss, a
reduction in productivity, and an increase in defects. Mitigation strategies to deal with …

Purpose Organizations rely on their business processes to achieve their business objectives
and ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations. Hence, conformance to process …

Software development projects face a lot of risks (requirements inflation, poor scheduling,
technical problems, etc.). Underestimating those risks may put in danger the project success …

Value stream mapping (VSM) has been successfully applied in the context of software
process improvement. However, its current adaptations from Lean manufacturing focus …

Truck Factor (also known as Bus Factor or Lottery Number) is the minimal number of
developers that have to be hit by a truck (or leave) before a project is incapacitated …