Detecting and Optimising Team Interactions in Software Development

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The functional interaction structure of a team captures the preferences with which members of different roles interact.

• This paper presents a data-driven approach to detect the functional interaction structure for software development teams from traces team members leave on development platforms during their daily work.
• Our approach considers differences in the activity levels of team members and uses a block-constrained configuration model to compute interaction preferences between members of different roles.
• We apply our approach in a case study to extract the functional interaction structure of a product team at the German IT security company genua GmbH.