| Project: |
Agile Widgets |
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| Student Researchers: |
Sarah Joseph, |
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| Advisor: |
Carol Wellington |
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| Institution: |
Shippensburg University |
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Agile development strategies are gaining acceptance. These strategies depend upon rapid feedback and a high level of communication among team members. Teams use a variety of techniques to promote that high level of communication including "Big, Visible Charts," daily stand-up meetings, and co-located teams. While these strategies have been shown to be effective for small teams, they do not scale to teams that are too large to be co-located or to distributed teams. This project will explore an alternative to scaling agility for larger teams. We believe that new technologies such as widgets in the Mac dashboard and gadgets in Windows Vista can be leveraged to address some of the communication needs of larger teams. If successful, this project will result in a series of gadgets/widgets that will push information about the status of the project to the engineers and a design for an interface that will promote peer-to-peer communication among the team.