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Building a theory of software teams organization in a continuous delivery context

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Leonardo Leite,

Fabio Kon,

Gustavo Pinto,

Paulo MeirellesAuthors Info & Claims

ICSE '20: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings

Pages 296 - 297

https://doi.org/10.1145/3377812.3390807

Published: 01 October 2020 Publication History

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Based on Grounded Theory guidelines, we interviewed 27 IT professionals to investigate how organizations pursuing continuous delivery should organize their development and operations teams. In this paper, we present the discovered organizational structures: (1) siloed departments, (2) classical DevOps, (3) cross-functional teams, and (4) platform teams.

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Leite LLago NMelo CKon FMeirelles P(2023)A Theory of Organizational Structures for Development and Infrastructure ProfessionalsIEEE Transactions on Software Engineering10.1109/TSE.2022.319916949:4(1898-1911)Online publication date: 1-Apr-2023
https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2022.3199169
Lopez-Fernandez DDiaz JGarcia JPerez JGonzalez-Prieto A(2022)DevOps Team Structures: Characterization and ImplicationsIEEE Transactions on Software Engineering10.1109/TSE.2021.310298248:10(3716-3736)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2022
https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2021.3102982
Leite LPinto GKon FMeirelles P(2021)The organization of software teams in the quest for continuous deliveryInformation and Software Technology10.1016/j.infsof.2021.106672139:COnline publication date: 23-Aug-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.infsof.2021.106672
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Building a theory of software teams organization in a continuous delivery context
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ICSE '20: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings

June 2020

357 pages

ISBN:9781450371223

DOI:10.1145/3377812

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Leite LLago NMelo CKon FMeirelles P(2023)A Theory of Organizational Structures for Development and Infrastructure ProfessionalsIEEE Transactions on Software Engineering10.1109/TSE.2022.319916949:4(1898-1911)Online publication date: 1-Apr-2023
https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2022.3199169
Lopez-Fernandez DDiaz JGarcia JPerez JGonzalez-Prieto A(2022)DevOps Team Structures: Characterization and ImplicationsIEEE Transactions on Software Engineering10.1109/TSE.2021.310298248:10(3716-3736)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2022
https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2021.3102982
Leite LPinto GKon FMeirelles P(2021)The organization of software teams in the quest for continuous deliveryInformation and Software Technology10.1016/j.infsof.2021.106672139:COnline publication date: 23-Aug-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.infsof.2021.106672
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