Communication, Collaboration, and Cooperation in Software Development-How Should We Support Group Work in Software Development?

Sopware development is essentially cooperative work which is collaboratively performed by zrarious roles of persons and tools. CommunicationS among the ,members of a development team, e.g. conversation, an.d among tools is on,e of the most important characteristics for these collaborative work. To make our software development environment more eflective an,d comfortable, we sh,ould observe what comm,unication, collaboration and cooperation are actually made in developm,ent processes and what styles are suitable to us. In the paper, several case studies and analytic results in software development are suraeyed, and I discuss what kinds of tools are required to support seamless2y group work in software development.