Self-organizing teams have been recognized and studied in various forms-as autonomous
groups in socio-technical systems, enablers of organizational theories, agents of knowledge …

Transitions from novice to expert often cause stress and anxiety and require specialized
instruction and support to enact efficiently. While many studies have looked at novice …

Carrying out real-world software projects in their academic studies helps students to
understand what they will face in industry, and to experience first-hand the challenges …

Human-centered methods can help researchers better understand and meet programmers'
needs. Because programming is a human activity, many of these methods can be used …

This article aims to identify technical competency levels relevant to Software Engineering in
a spectrum of professional profiles which are found in Spain's main Software Development …

We present metacodes, a new concept to guide grounded theory (GT) research in software
engineering. Metacodes are high level codes that can help software engineering …

Self-organizing teams are a hallmark of Agile software development, directly a ecting team e
ectiveness and project success. Agile software development, and in particular the Scrum …

Contributors to open source software (OSS) communities assume diverse roles to take
different responsibilities. One major limitation of the current OSS tools and platforms is that …

Purpose–This paper draws on a recent approach to ethnography in order to explore some
cultural issues in the development of software quality procedures within software …

Software crowdsourcing is an emerging and promising software development model. It is
based on the characteristics of Internet community intelligence, which makes it have certain …