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The problem of private information in large software organizations

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Coordination of project stakeholders is critical to timely and consistent software delivery. In this short paper we present the problem of private information as a guiding framework or lens through which to interpret coordination dynamics within software organizations. We provide evidence of this problem in the form of specific challenges, collected via interviews from a diverse set of extended (i.e., non-development) stakeholders in a globally distributed software development organization.

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ICSSP '11: Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Software and Systems Process
May 2011
256 pages
ISBN:9781450307307
DOI:10.1145/1987875
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  1. coordination
  2. extended stakeholders
  3. information management
  4. private information
  5. software process

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