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Tue 10 Nov 2020 08:07 - 08:08 at Virtual room 2 - Empirical in Practice

Software development is a collective undertaking, and the team's efficiency is critical in development.
In order to reduce project management overheads and improve productivity, a global information and communication technology enterprise institutionalizes an organization wide small-team practice, called \textit{\textbf{fireteams}}, to tackle the problems arising from human and social aspects, such as amicability, talent, skill, and communications.
This paper reports a mixed-method research, which combines archive analysis, interviews and survey, to empirically investigate the characteristics and impacts of fireteam in this industrial setting.
We identify three categories of fireteam in terms of its demonstrated characteristics: ordinary agile team with extensions, single-function team, and entire life-cycle team; elaborate four key activities of fireteam, i.e. team formation, maintenance, communication, and meeting.
Less communication and management overheads, higher agility & concurrency, and improved personal ability are the three important contributors that increase the productivity of fireteams. Whereas management & leadership effort, divergent understanding of fireteam, and self-organized team are discovered as the three major problems associated with fireteams.
Although the benefits of fireteam can be observed from its adoption, this practice does not achieve the enterprise's anticipations very well. Some considerations and recommendations are also discussed to improve this small-team practice. % and adopt more innovative practices in industry.

Tue 10 Nov

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08:00 - 08:30
08:00
2m
Talk
Can Microtask Programming Work in Industry?
Industry Papers
Shinobu Saito NTT Software Innovation Center, IIMURA Yukako NTT, Japan, Emad Aghayi , Thomas LaToza George Mason University, USA
DOI
08:03
1m
Talk
Closing the Gap Between Software Engineering Education and Industrial Needs
Journal First
Vahid Garousi Queen's University Belfast, Görkem Giray Independent Researcher, Eray Tüzün Bilkent University, Çağatay Çatal Wageningen University, Michael Felderer University of Innsbruck
08:05
1m
Talk
Effort-Aware Just-in-Time Defect Identification in Practice: A Case Study at Alibaba
Industry Papers
Meng Yan School of Big Data & Software Engineering, Chongqing University, Xin Xia Monash University, Yuanrui Fan Zhejiang University, David Lo Singapore Management University, Ahmed E. Hassan Queen's University, Xindong Zhang Alibaba Group
DOI
08:07
1m
Talk
Fireteam: A Small-Team Development Practice in Industry
Industry Papers
He Zhang Nanjing University, Huang Huang State Key Laboratory of Novel Software Technology, Software Institute, Nanjing University, Dong Shao Nanjing University, Xin Huang
DOI
08:09
1m
Talk
Learning to Extract Transaction Function from Requirements: An Industrial Case on Financial Software
Industry Papers
Lin Shi Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Mingyang Li Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Mingzhe Xing ISCAS, Yawen Wang ISCAS, Qing Wang Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xinhua Peng China Merchants Bank, China, Weimin Liao China Merchants Bank, China, Guizhen Pi China Merchants Bank, China, Haiqing Wang Beijing Software Cost Evaluation Technology Innovation Alliance, China
DOI
08:11
1m
Talk
Towards transferring Lean Software Startup Practices in Software Engineering Education
Paper Presentations
Orges Cico Norwegian University of Science and Technology
08:13
17m
Talk
Conversations on Empirical in Practice
Paper Presentations
Huang Huang State Key Laboratory of Novel Software Technology, Software Institute, Nanjing University, Rachel Tzoref-Brill IBM Research, Sebastian Baltes QAware GmbH and The University of Adelaide, Shinobu Saito NTT Software Innovation Center, M: Diomidis Spinellis Athens University of Economics and Business