Collaborating in the Fog: A Rich Description of Agile Software Development

Abstract

Collaborative agile software development is inexorably replacing traditional command-and-control project arrangements. To gain a better understanding of collaboration in this context, empirical data was collected from a single co-located agile software development project. Aspects of collaboration in that project are described in a rich description. Collaboration is achieved with an assemblage of collaborative activities, activity sequencing, inter and intra-group interactions, shared artefacts, and other practices. This case description is a first step in informing a theory of collaboration that has potential to contribute to collaboration research and collaboration tool design.