Information Flow within a Dispersed Agile Team: A Distributed Cognition Perspective [chapter]

Helen Sharp, Rosalba Giuffrida, Grigori Melnik
2012 Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing  
One of the hallmarks of a co-located agile team is the simple and open flow of information between its members. In a co-located setting, peripheral awareness, osmotic communication and simple information radiators support agile principles such as collective ownership, minimal documentation and simple design, and facilitate smooth collaboration. However in a dispersed agile team, where individual team members are distributed across several sites, these mechanisms are not available and
more » ... sharing has to be more explicit. Research into distributed software development has been tackling similar issues, but little work has been reported into dispersed agile teams. This paper reports on a field study of one successful partially dispersed agile team. Using a distributed cognition analysis which focuses on information propagation and transformation within the team we investigate how the team collaborates and compare our findings with those from co-located teams.
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-30350-0_5 fatcat:27wrms67vrbadmmgxeumu532qi