Dependencies among Software Development Teams. Coordination, Communication and Collaboration

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Computer Science - Commercial Information Technology, grade: 1,7, University of Mannheim, language: English, abstract: The goal of this seminar paper is to find out which dependencies exist in software development teams. These dependencies and their consequences will be identified and defined. These findings will be gathered by a systematic literature review based on the guidelines of Kitchenham.

After that these findings will serve as a reference for constructing a framework respectively model, which illustrates and summarizes the impact of the dependencies for the software development teams.

The literature review and the built model will be finally the answer to the following two research questions of this paper:

Q1: What types of dependencies between software development teams are reported in the Information Systems and Software Engineering literature?

Q2: What are the current theories on effects of team interdependencies?