NDLI: Talk versus work:characteristics of developer collaboration on the jazz platform

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Sengupta, Bikram Datta, Subhajit Sindhgatta, Renuka
Abstract	IBM's Jazz initiative offers a state-of-the-art collaborative development environment (CDE) facilitating developer interactions around interdependent units of work. In this paper, we analyze development data across two versions of a major IBM product developed on the Jazz platform, covering in total 19 months of development activity, including 17,000+ work items and 61,000+ comments made by more than 190 developers in 35 locations. By examining the relation between developer talk and work, we find evidence that developers maintain a reasonably high level of connectivity with peer developers with whom they share work dependencies, but the span of a developer's communication goes much beyond the known dependencies of his/her work items. Using multiple linear regression models, we find that the number of defects owned by a developer is impacted by the number of other developers (s)he is connected through talk, his/her interpersonal influence in the network of work dependencies, the number of work items (s)he comments on, and the number work items (s)he owns. These effects are maintained even after controlling for workload, role, work dependency, and connection related factors. We discuss the implications of our results for collaborative software development and project governance.
Starting Page	655
Ending Page	668
Page Count	14
File Format	PDF
ISSN	03621340 15581160
DOI	10.1145/2398857.2384664
Journal	ACM SIGPLAN Notices (SIGP)
Volume Number	47
Issue Number	10
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1983-05-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Social network analysis Jazz Collaboration Software teams Models Defects
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Software

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