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      Collaboration Constraints for Designers and Developers in an Agile Environment

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      Conference name: Proceedings of the 30th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI)
      Conference theme: Fusion
      Conference date: 11 - 15 July 2016
      Keywords: Design, agile, software, development, decision-making
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            Abstract

            The relationship between developers and designers is an important factor for successful User-Centred Design (UCD) work in an Agile Software Development (ASD) process. However, the determinants and long-term barriers for successful ASD in this relationship are still unclear. We asked designers and developers in an online survey about their roles, perceived level of ASD implementation, satisfaction with ASD, teamwork satisfaction, and perceived quality of communication and collaboration with the other role. Developers rated the main factors for successful ASD work as having access to designers and an optimal environmental setup. Designers’ main concern was related to improving wider teamwork, in particular sharing of information. A qualitative analysis of respondents’ comments confirmed these results broadly, and indicated that close cooperation and informal communication between designers and developers was desired. Respondents also perceived senior stakeholders’ hierarchical decision-making process as a barrier to successful ASD. Co-location and pairing of designers and developers was therefore also seen as an opportunity to enhance more localised and autonomous decisionmaking.

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            Contributors
            Alexander Jones
            Volker Thoma
            Gemma Newell
            Conference
            Publication date: July 2016
            Publication date (Print): July 2016
            Pages: 1-9
            Affiliations
            [0001]BBC & University of Chester

            4th Floor Bridge House, Media City, Manchester, M50 2BH
            [0002]School of Psychology

            University of East London

            Water Lane, London, E15 4LZ
            [0003]BBC

            4th Floor Bridge House, Media City, Manchester, M50 2BH
            Article
            DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2016.37
            SO-VID: 7b425b89-91d0-4f26-8e23-cb46f5c08137
            Copyright © © Jones et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of British HCI 2016 Conference Fusion, Bournemouth, UK
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            Conference name: Proceedings of the 30th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference
            Conference acronym: HCI
            Conference number: 30
            Conference location: Bournemouth University, Poole, UK
            Conference date: 11 - 15 July 2016
            Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            Conference theme: Fusion
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

            Self URI (article page): https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14236/ewic/HCI2016.37
            Self URI (journal page): https://ewic.bcs.org/
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            Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing

            ScienceOpen disciplines: Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            Keywords: Design,development,agile,decision-making,software

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