Designing Software Cockpits for Coordinating Distributed Software Development, 1st Workshop on Measurement-based Cockpits for Distributed Software and Systems Engineering Projects

da Silva, I., Alvim, M., Ripley, R., Sarma, A., Werner, C., van der Hoek, A. Designing Software Cockpits for Coordinating Distributed Software Development, 1st Workshop on Measurement-based Cockpits for Distributed Software and Systems Engineering Projects (SOFTPIT 2007), in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering (Munich, Germany), August 2007 (Accepted). --- Coordination of global software development is particularly difficult as it involves teams that are distributed across different locations and time zones. One of the key issues is a lack of understanding of how activities of different teams (and team members) relate to one another. To provide situational awareness for distributed teams, software cockpits, at-a-glance computer-controlled displays of data collected from multiple sources, have been proposed. In this paper, we introduce a set of design decisions that need to be considered for building software cockpits, present our approach to realizing such a cockpit based on three exploratory visualizations of distributed software development projects, and conclude with a discussion of lessons learned so far.

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