Modeling and Analysis of Boundary Objects and Methodological Islands in Large-Scale Systems Development
Paper i proceeding, 2020

Large-scale systems development commonly faces the challenge of managing relevant knowledge between different organizational groups, particularly in increasingly agile contexts. In previous studies, we found the importance of analyzing methodological islands (i.e., groups using different development methods than the surrounding organization) and boundary objects between them. In this paper, we propose a metamodel to better capture and analyze coordination and knowledge management in practice. Such a metamodel can allow practitioners to describe current practices, analyze issues, and design better-suited coordination mechanisms. We evaluated the conceptual model together with four large-scale companies developing complex systems. In particular, we derived an initial list of bad smells that can be leveraged to detect issues and devise suitable improvement strategies for inter-team coordination in large-scale development. We present the model, smells, and our evaluation results.

Boundary objects

Empirical studies

Agile development

Författare

Rebekka Wohlrab

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Software Engineering

Göteborgs universitet

Systemite AB

Jennifer Horkoff

Göteborgs universitet

Rashida Kasauli

Göteborgs universitet

Salome Honest Maro

Göteborgs universitet

Jan-Philipp Steghöfer

Göteborgs universitet

Eric Knauss

Göteborgs universitet

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

0302-9743 (ISSN) 16113349 (eISSN)

Vol. 12400 LNCS 575-589

39th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER)
Vienna, Austria,

Ämneskategorier

Programvaruteknik

Systemvetenskap

Systemvetenskap, informationssystem och informatik med samhällsvetenskaplig inriktning

DOI

10.1007/978-3-030-62522-1_42

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