Alan

Indeed this sounds very interesting, and an avenue worthy of being
pursued. 

I and colleagues have been researching the human and social aspects of
software development, with a particular focus on software practice, for
quite some time. There is renewed interest in the area and the community
is gradually growing, partly fuelled by the agile movement but also
partly fuelled by events such as the 20th anniversary 'celebration' of
Peopleware at ICSE this year. We are hoping that there will be a
workshop on this subject at ICSE 2008 (but proposals have only just been
submitted, so we will have to see).

Wearing a different hat, I'm the associate editor for IEEE Software on
exactly this topic (human and social aspects of software development)
and so if there's anyone out there with research work (or any other
work, in fact) they want to publish to a practitioner audence, then
please get in touch (off the mailing list, I suggest ;-)). 

Thanks
helen

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A marvellous analysis of the reasons for the "mathematical"
(or formal) versus human orientation in software engineering can be
found in Phil Agre's chapter "Conceptions of the user in computer system
design". So far as I know, his observations regarding the "user" as
human person have not been extended to observations about the software
engineer as human person.

I offer this as a research opportunity to somebody out there ...

Agre, Philip (1995) Conceptions of the user in computer system design.
In P. Thomas (ed.) Social and Interactional Dimensions of Human-Computer
Interfaces. Cambridge, CUP, pp. 67-106.

Alan
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http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/afb21/       Phone: +44 (0) 1223 334418



 
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