The best defense is a good defense: adapting negotiation methods for tackling pressure over software project estimates
Thu 12 May 2022 22:05 - 22:10 at ICSE room 3-even hours - Reuse and Economics Chair(s): Rick Kazman
Software estimation is critical for a software project’s success but also a challenging activity. We argue that estimation problems are not restricted to the generation of estimates but also their use for commitment establishment: project stakeholders pressure estimators to change their estimates or to accept unrealistic commitments to attain business goals. In this study, we employed a Design Science Research (DSR) methodology to design an artifact based on negotiation methods, to empower software estimators in defending their estimates and searching for alternatives to unrealistic commitments when facing pressure. The artifact is a concrete step towards disseminating the soft skill of negotiation among practitioners. We present the preliminary results from a focus group that showed that practitioners from the software industry were able to use the artifact in a concrete scenario, when estimating and establishing commitments about a software project. Our future steps include improving the artifact with the suggestions from participants of the focus group, and evaluating it empirically in real software projects in the industry.
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22:00 - 23:00 | Reuse and EconomicsNIER - New Ideas and Emerging Results / SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice / Technical Track / Journal-First Papers at ICSE room 3-even hours Chair(s): Rick Kazman University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa | ||
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22:05 5mTalk | The best defense is a good defense: adapting negotiation methods for tackling pressure over software project estimates NIER - New Ideas and Emerging Results Patricia Matsubara UFAM & UFMS, Igor Steinmacher Northern Arizona University, Bruno Gadelha UFAM, Tayana Conte Universidade Federal do Amazonas Pre-print Media Attached | ||
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22:15 5mTalk | SnR: Constraint-Based Type Inference for Incomplete Java Code Snippets Technical Track Yiwen Dong University of Waterloo, Tianxiao Gu Tiktok Inc., Yongqiang Tian University of Waterloo, Chengnian Sun University of Waterloo Pre-print Media Attached | ||
22:20 5mTalk | Cross-Domain Deep Code Search with Few-Shot Learning Technical Track Yitian Chai School of Software, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Hongyu Zhang University of Newcastle, Beijun Shen School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Xiaodong Gu Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China DOI Pre-print Media Attached File Attached | ||
22:25 5mTalk | GitHub Sponsors: Exploring a New Way to Contribute to Open Source Technical Track Naomichi Shimada Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Tao Xiao Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Hideaki Hata Shinshu University, Christoph Treude University of Melbourne, Kenichi Matsumoto Nara Institute of Science and Technology DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||