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Social Collaborative Media in Software Development

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Social collaborative media; Software development; Project management media; Collaborative project

Glossary

Collaborative media:

The forms of media which enable people (or participants) to collaborate and exchange information. Examples of collaborative media discussed in this entry are application software and online tools/media.

Software projects:

Projects in which software products are planned, developed, and monitored. Software projects have defined goals and methodology to follow in order to achieve the goals.

Software development process:

Process which is related to the development steps in software projects including designing, planning, management, and monitoring in realizing the project goals.

Definition

In this entry, we discuss various collaborative media which are commonly used among software developers. We start by discussing common communication channelsdevelopers used. These communication channels are discussed in two groups: public and enterprise-wide media. We...

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  1. Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Didi Surian

  2. School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, 80 Stamford Road, 178902, Singapore, Singapore

    David Lo

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  1. Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. University of Calgary Computer Science, Calgary, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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  1. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Rosa M. Benito

  2. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Juan Carlos Losada

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Surian, D., Lo, D. (2017). Social Collaborative Media in Software Development. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_110178-1

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