posted on 2012-07-04, 15:34authored byMurat Yilmaz, Rory V. O'Connor, Paul Clarke
The vision of building a successful software product requires
teams of individuals equipped with a wide range of social and technical
skills. Furthermore, by combining these skills with appropriate job roles,
we should be able to improve the productivity of a software organization.
In order to identify and compare di erent roles in software development
activities, we conduct a systematic comparison of software development
models, covering traditional approaches through to agile techniques. To
compare the roles in the literature with industrial software landscapes,
we use data from a survey conducted on 266 software practitioners to
ascertain job roles in two middle size software companies, one of which
uses traditional methods and in particular ISO/IEC 12207 for managing
their software development activities while other uses a tailored agile
methodology. In light of our interviews, we found that based on project
speci c needs, the roles used in industry vary signi cantly from the roles
de ned in literature.
History
Publication
Proceedings 12th International Conference on Software Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination. Communications in Computer and Information Science;
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Note
peer-reviewed
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SFI
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