Emerging Issues in e-Collaboration Distributed Group Decision-Making: Opportunities and Challenges

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    The Effects of Virtuality on Agile Development
    ( 2022-01-04) Stendal, Karen ; Iden, Jon ; Midttun Rostrup, Hanna ; Elston, Daniel
    In this article, we explore how agile development teams are affected by transition from physical to virtual agile teamwork. To this end, we examined three agile teams at a software company, which due to Covid-19 had to change from working in a shared office space to individual home offices. We find that virtual work affects agile development in that there are fewer interactions, more written communication, more formalized relationships, and increased use of documentation. Furthermore, we find that virtual agile teams need a different style of team management. In light of this, we discuss whether a virtual context is compatible with agile development, or whether the form of work is affected so much that it no longer can be considered agile.
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    A Triple Bottom-line Typology of Technical Debt: Supporting Decision- Making in Cross-Functional Teams
    ( 2022-01-04) Greville, Mark ; O'Raghallaigh, Paidi ; Mccarthy, Stephen
    Technical Debt (TD) is a widely discussed metaphor in IT practice focused on increased short-term benefit in exchange for long-term ‘debt’. While it is primarily individuals or groups inside IT departments who make the decisions to take on TD, we find that the effects of TD stretch across the entire organisation. Decisions to take on TD should therefore concern a wider group. However, business leaders have traditionally lacked awareness of the effects of what they perceive to be ‘technology decisions’. To facilitate TD as group- based decision-making, we review existing literature to develop a typology of the wider impacts of TD. The goal is to help technologists, non-technologists, and academics have a broader and shared understanding of TD and to facilitate more participatory and transparent technology-related decision making. We extend the typology to include a wider ‘outside in’ perspective and conclude by suggesting areas for further research.
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