From Software Engineering to Software as Service: Computing Task Dependencies from Work Artifacts

Опубликовано 7 сентября 2016, 16:24

Task dependencies are at the heart of coordination in collaborative work. If tasks share no dependencies, then communication and coordination are not required. To the extent that tasks *are* interdependent, the the attributes of the particular dependencies dictate the nature and extent of coordination that will be required. Organizational theory provides only highly stylized descriptions of dependency types, such as pooled, sequential, and reciprocal, which rarely occur in pure form in non-routine intellectual work. Having a way to predict actual task dependencies would allow us to fine-tune awareness and communication capabilities to actual coordination needs. In this talk, I will describe a technique we have developed for computing the coordination