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Organization Program committee Colin Atkinson (University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany) Behzad Bordbar (University of Birmingham, UK) Jacky Estublier (University of Grenoble, France) Christian Haerdt (EADS, Germany) Jason Xabier Mansell (TECNALIA - ICT/European Software Institute, Spain) Larrucea Uriarte Xabier (TECNALIA - ICT/European Software Institute, Spain) Leon J. Osterweil (University of Massachusetts, USA) Richard Paige (University of York, UK) Garousi Vahid (University of Calgary Alberta, Canada) Organizers Bendraou Reda (LIP6, France) Lbath Redouane (IRIT, France) Coulette Bernard (IRIT, France) Gervais Marie-Pierre (LIP6, France)
Collaborative Processes in the Real World: Embracing their Ad-hoc Nature Komlan Akpédjé KEDJI 1 , Bernard COULETTE 1 , Mahmoud NASSAR 2 , Redouane LBATH 1 , and Minh Tu TON THAT 3 1 IRIT, Toulouse, France, {kedji, bernard.coulette, redouane.lbath}@irit.fr 2 ENSIAS, SIME, Rabat, Morocco nassar@ensias.ma 3 University of Toulouse, France minhtutonthat@gmail.com Abstract. In real world projects, collaboration in not only omnipresent, but efficient collaborative processes are also hard to get right, especially when the cohesion needed is high. In software engineering, a sizable amount of information needed to understand and support collaboration is unavailable before the start of the project. We argue that such lack of information is essential to the field, and needs to be embraced, rather that fought, or worse, ignored. We believe collaboration in the real world to be a feed-back process, where short-term decisions guide collaboration, and where the way collaboration unfolds in the project, in turn, guides future decisions about collaboration. Practitioners should be given the ability to express such evolving understanding about collaboration in a formalism suited for easy representation and tool-provided assistance. To this end, we propose an extension to the Software & System Process Engineering Meta-Model (SPEM), which introduces concepts needed to represent precise and dynamic collaboration setups that practitioners create to address ever-changing challenges. Keywords: process design; process planning; collaboration; collaborative work 1 Introduction Collaboration can be simply defined as the act of working together, towards a common goal, and is a pervasive concern in any collective endeavor. While process formalisms and standards like SPEM [11] exist, support for the description of ad-hoc collaboration (that is, collaboration that is done because it happens to be needed, and not because it was planned) is lacking. We show that in the field of computer engineering, collaboration is usually ad-hoc, and that this is not by accident, but rather by necessity. We embrace that necessity in our quest to build a better mental model of collaboration, so as to be able to offer effective tool support to practitioners. Our approach naturally results in a feedback loop between reality and the model, where decisions taken in the project are continuously injected in the model, and at any given moment, the state of the model guides future decisions. 1
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