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Coordination theory and software process technology

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Coordination theory is an interdisciplinary approach to studying the management of dependencies among activities. By its very nature software process technology deals with coordination. However it often expresses coordination in terms of low level details. An effective coordination theory would give us a better set of coordination abstractions. We illustrate the close relationship between these fields and propose areas where they could learn from each other.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, M13 9PL, Manchester, UK

    R. Mark Greenwood

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Greenwood, R.M. (1995). Coordination theory and software process technology. In: Schäfer, W. (eds) Software Process Technology. EWSPT 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 913. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-59205-9_61

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