Agile Project Management: A Case Study of a Virtual Research Environment Development Project

dc.contributor.authorProcter, Rob
dc.contributor.authorRouncefield, Mark
dc.contributor.authorPoschen, Meik
dc.contributor.authorLin, Yuwei
dc.contributor.authorVoss, Alex
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-06T13:07:12Z
dc.date.available2020-06-06T13:07:12Z
dc.date.issued40695
dc.description.abstractIn this paper we use a case study of a project to create a Web 2.0-based, Virtual Research Environment (VRE) for researchers to share digital resources in order to reflect on the principles and practices for embedding eResearch applications within user communities. In particular, we focus on the software development methodologies and project management techniques adopted by the project team in order to ensure that the project remained responsive to changing user requirements without compromising their capacity to keep the project ‘on track’, i.e. meeting the goals declared in the project proposal within budget and on time. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, we describe how the project team, whose members are distributed across multiple sites (and often mobile), exploit a repertoire of coordination mechanisms, communication modes and tools, artefacts and structuring devices as they seek to establish the orderly running of the project while following an agile, user-centred development approach.de
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10606-011-9137-z
dc.identifier.pissn1573-7551
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10606-011-9137-z
dc.identifier.urihttps://dl.eusset.eu/handle/20.500.12015/3938
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relation.ispartofComputer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): Vol. 20, No. 3
dc.relation.ispartofseriesComputer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
dc.subjectagile software project management
dc.subjecteResearch
dc.subjectuser engagement
dc.subjectVirtual Research Environment
dc.subjectWeb 2.0
dc.titleAgile Project Management: A Case Study of a Virtual Research Environment Development Projectde
dc.typeText/Journal Article
gi.citation.endPage225
gi.citation.startPage197

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