Jazz and the Eclipse Way of Collaboration
Twenty-five years ago, computer programmers often wrote code in environments reminiscent of the cells of cloistered monks. But now that software development has become highly collaborative, developers tend to spend more time interacting with their colleagues than stringing together lines of code.
In the past, software collaborative efforts were more ad hoc than formal. So, collaboration strategies sometimes created more problems than they solved. In a typical workday, the need to respond to emails, attend meetings, participate in group discussions, and manage source control could take up so much time that little time was left to do any coding.
To improve collaboration in software development teams, IBM Research and IBM Rational software engineers have been working on the Jazz project.
Randall Frost
http://www.computer.org/portal/cms_docs_software/software/homepage/2007/s607/Jazz-Eclipse.pdf
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