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Leveraging Transparency
Jan.-Feb. 2013 (vol. 30 no. 1)
pp. 37-43
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| Laura Dabbish, Colleen Stuart, Jason Tsay, James Herbsleb, "Leveraging Transparency," IEEE Software, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 37-43, Jan.-Feb., 2013. | |||
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| @article{ 10.1109/MS.2012.172, author = {Laura Dabbish and Colleen Stuart and Jason Tsay and James Herbsleb}, title = {Leveraging Transparency}, journal ={IEEE Software}, volume = {30}, number = {1}, issn = {0740-7459}, year = {2013}, pages = {37-43}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MS.2012.172}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, } | |||
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| TY - MGZN JO - IEEE Software TI - Leveraging Transparency IS - 1 SN - 0740-7459 SP37 EP43 EPD - 37-43 A1 - Laura Dabbish, A1 - Colleen Stuart, A1 - Jason Tsay, A1 - James Herbsleb, PY - 2013 KW - Social network services KW - Software engineering KW - Collaboration KW - Organizational aspects KW - User interfaces KW - Information technology KW - Software management KW - information technology and systems KW - software engineering tools and techniques KW - software engineering KW - organizational management KW - coordination KW - group interfaces KW - organization interfaces KW - information interfaces and representation KW - HCI VL - 30 JA - IEEE Software ER - | |||
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MS.2012.172
A new generation of development environments takes a radical approach to communication and coordination by fusing social networking functionality with flexible, distributed version control. Through these transparent work environments, people, repositories, development activities, and their histories are immediately and easily visible to all users. Developers quickly acquire the skill to interpret this rich information to find useful resources, connect with people, solve technical problems, and enhance their learning opportunities. This article presents the results of a qualitative study of users of one such environment, GitHub. It describes how transparency helps developers on GitHub manage their projects, handle dependencies more effectively, reduce communication needs, and figure out what requires their attention. Although transparency is not a silver bullet, the approach shows great promise for enhancing collaboration and coordination. The Web extra at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpGA2fmAHvM is a video of Joel Spolsky discussing the structure, software, technology, and culture of Stack Exchange.
Index Terms:
Social network services,Software engineering,Collaboration,Organizational aspects,User interfaces,Information technology,Software management,information technology and systems,software engineering tools and techniques,software engineering,organizational management,coordination,group interfaces,organization interfaces,information interfaces and representation,HCI
Citation:
Laura Dabbish, Colleen Stuart, Jason Tsay, James Herbsleb, "Leveraging Transparency," IEEE Software, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 37-43, Jan.-Feb. 2013, doi:10.1109/MS.2012.172
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