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Collaboration in Formative Design: Working Together at a Whiteboard
January/February 2012 (vol. 29 no. 1)
pp. 56-60
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John Rooksby, Nozomi Ikeya, "Collaboration in Formative Design: Working Together at a Whiteboard," IEEE Software, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 56-60, January/February, 2012.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MS.2011.123,
author = {John Rooksby and Nozomi Ikeya},
title = {Collaboration in Formative Design: Working Together at a Whiteboard},
journal ={IEEE Software},
volume = {29},
number = {1},
issn = {0740-7459},
year = {2012},
pages = {56-60},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MS.2011.123},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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John Rooksby, University of St Andrews
Nozomi Ikeya, Keio University
To successfully collaborate in a creative design session, software developers must achieve and maintain a shared focus, encourage and challenge each other, and manage their working relations, even in stressful situations. This article describes six key ways professional software developers do this using examples from a video study of professional developers designing at a whiteboard.

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Index Terms:
programming teams, software engineering process, qualitative process analysis, management
Citation:
John Rooksby, Nozomi Ikeya, "Collaboration in Formative Design: Working Together at a Whiteboard," IEEE Software, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 56-60, Jan.-Feb. 2012, doi:10.1109/MS.2011.123
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