Incorporating social software into distributed agile development environments

Abstract

The use of social software applications, such as wikis and blogs, has emerged as a practical and economical option to consider as global teams may use them to organize, track, publish their work, and then, share knowledge. We intend to push further the application of social software principles and technologies into collaborative development environments for agile and distributed projects. As a first step, in this paper we first present a survey of social software, as well as tools and environments for collaborative development. Then, we present some opportunities and challenges of incorporating social software aspects in agile distributed development.