NDLI: Collaboration during conceptual design

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Catledge, L.D. Potts, C.
Copyright Year	1996
Description	Author affiliation: Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA (Catledge, L.D.; Potts, C.)
Abstract	Conceptual design involves requirements analysis, functional specification, and architectural design. It remains informal and poorly understood. We studied the conceptual design activities of a representative industrial software project, Centauri, for three months with follow up observations and discussions over the following six months. Our goal was to understand how patterns of collaboration and communication in project teams affect the convergence of the project on a common vision and a documented specification. We present our research methodology, our findings, and their implications for process and tool support. The following observations stand out. First, convergence on a common system vision was painfully slow. The major impediment to faster progress was the difficulty that the project team had in making critical allocation and interface design decisions. Second, Centauri project members repeatedly raised certain issues and failed to reach closure on key problems. Finally, we observed a persistent tension between the desire on behalf of nearly all project members to follow a prescriptive development process and the urgency of delivering a working product.
Starting Page	182
Ending Page	189
File Size	958301
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0818672528
DOI	10.1109/ICRE.1996.491443
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1996-04-15
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Collaboration Convergence Concrete Process design Design methodology Educational institutions Machine vision Impedance Software systems Collaborative work
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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