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 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Blackwell Sent: 12 October 2007 14:19 To: Andrew Ko Cc: Derek M Jones; Hanania Salzer; discuss@ppig.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PPIG discuss: When agile goes bad.... 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 -- Alan Blackwell Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/afb21/ Phone: +44 (0) 1223 334418 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PPIG Discuss List (discuss@ppig.org) Discuss admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss Announce admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/announce PPIG Discuss archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PPIG Discuss List (discuss@ppig.org) Discuss admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss Announce admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/announce PPIG Discuss archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/
