TY - GEN
T1 - The problem of knowledge decoupling in software development projects
AU - Yamauchi, Yutaka
AU - Whalen, Jack
AU - Ikeya, Nozomi
AU - Vinkhuyzen, Erik
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - In our ethnographic investigation of software integration projects a recurrent pattern emerges. The detailed understanding leaders have of the design and development decreases over time as they become busier and busier attending meetings, creating documents, and resolving issues and thus cannot spend much time on design or development work. As a result, their leadership becomes increasingly decoupled from the work of the project. We discuss various dimensions of this problem.
AB - In our ethnographic investigation of software integration projects a recurrent pattern emerges. The detailed understanding leaders have of the design and development decreases over time as they become busier and busier attending meetings, creating documents, and resolving issues and thus cannot spend much time on design or development work. As a result, their leadership becomes increasingly decoupled from the work of the project. We discuss various dimensions of this problem.
KW - Knowledge decoupling
KW - Leadership
KW - Project management
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U2 - 10.1145/1134285.1134439
DO - 10.1145/1134285.1134439
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:34247106778
SN - 1595933751
SN - 9781595933751
T3 - Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering
SP - 877
EP - 880
BT - Proceeding of the 28th International Conference on Software Engineering 2006, ICSE '06
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 28th International Conference on Software Engineering 2006, ICSE '06
Y2 - 20 May 2006 through 28 May 2006
ER -