CHASE 2022
co-located with ICSE 2022
Thu 19 May 2022 09:20 - 09:30 at CHASE room - Session 4: Distributed Teams Chair(s): Alexander Serebrenik

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, more software teams than ever find themselves working in a remote model with team members separated by location, timezone, and working hours. This working model is expected to persist post-pandemic as companies explore the benefits of hybrid working. Software teams have always been reliant on tools to help them build software. Now they find themselves wholly reliant on tools to help them collaborate online. Surprisingly, there has been little research to date on which collaboration tools are used, how they are chosen, how they are used, and what challenges are faced when using such tools. This short paper offers emerging findings from an ongoing study in which we are interviewing software professionals about these questions. The insights are preliminary in that we are still conducting additional interviews beyond the ones reported here, yet some common themes are already emerging. Among others, we highlight the following: choice of tools made by the teams is opportunistic; teams adapt existing collaboration practices to utilize the tools better when working remotely; and a persistent problem exists of being unable to find information across chats, emails, and documents.

Thu 19 May

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09:00 - 10:00
Session 4: Distributed TeamsResearch Papers at CHASE room
Chair(s): Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology
09:00
5m
Other
Session Opening
Research Papers

09:05
15m
Research paper
[Full Paper] Pandemic Agility: Towards a Theory on Adapting to Working From Home
Research Papers
Jonas Matos Cesar School, César França Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE)
09:20
10m
Vision and Emerging Results
[Emerging Results] Collaboration Tool Choices and Use in Remote Teams: Emerging Results from an Ongoing Study
Research Papers
Victoria Jackson University of California, Irvine, Andre van der Hoek University of California, Irvine, Rafael Prikladnicki School of Technology at PUCRS University
09:30
10m
Vision and Emerging Results
[Emerging Results] Practices to Improve Teamwork in Software Development During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Ethnographic Study
Research Papers
Ronnie de Souza Santos Dalhousie University, Paul Ralph Dalhousie University
Pre-print Media Attached
09:40
20m
Live Q&A
Final Discussion
Research Papers


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Thu 19 May 2022 09:00 - 10:00 at CHASE room - Session 4: Distributed Teams Chair(s): Alexander Serebrenik
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