Summary: InformationNeedsinCollocatedSoftwareDevelopmentTeams
AndrewJ.Ko
Human-ComputerInteractionInstitute
CarnegieMellonUniversity
5000ForbesAve,PittsburghPA15213
ajko@cs.cmu.edu
RobertDeLineandGinaVenolia
MicrosoftResearch
OneMicrosoftWay
Redmond,WA98052
{rdeline,ginav}@microsoft.com


Abstract
Previousresearchhasdocumentedthefragmentedna-
tureofsoftwaredevelopmentwork.Toexplainthisin
moredetail,weanalyzedsoftwaredevelopers'day-to-day
informationneeds.Weobservedseventeendevelopersat
alargesoftwarecompanyandtranscribedtheiractivities
in90-minutesessions.Weanalyzedtheselogsforthe

Source: Anderson, Richard - Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington at Seattle

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences