TY - GEN
T1 - Articulating everyday actions
T2 - 30th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2012
AU - McNely, Brian J.
AU - Gestwicki, Paul
AU - Gelms, Bridget
AU - Burke, Ann
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - In this paper, we detail findings about the use of Scrum-a widely adopted agile software development framework-among a student game development team. Looking closely at six weeks of Scrum practices from a larger fifteen-week ethnography, we describe how Scrum strongly mediates everyday actions for the thirteen participants we studied. In analyzing our data, we deployed activity theory in concert with genre theory to better understand how participants repeatedly articulated and coarticulated finite, goal-directed, individual actions in the service of a broader, ongoing, shared objective. We offer, therefore, a way of understanding the Scrum process framework as a powerful orienting genre that facilitates collective development practice by stabilizing and intermediating a host of related, dynamic genres and artifacts.
AB - In this paper, we detail findings about the use of Scrum-a widely adopted agile software development framework-among a student game development team. Looking closely at six weeks of Scrum practices from a larger fifteen-week ethnography, we describe how Scrum strongly mediates everyday actions for the thirteen participants we studied. In analyzing our data, we deployed activity theory in concert with genre theory to better understand how participants repeatedly articulated and coarticulated finite, goal-directed, individual actions in the service of a broader, ongoing, shared objective. We offer, therefore, a way of understanding the Scrum process framework as a powerful orienting genre that facilitates collective development practice by stabilizing and intermediating a host of related, dynamic genres and artifacts.
KW - Activity theory
KW - Mediation
KW - Orienting genres
KW - Scrum
KW - Writing
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U2 - 10.1145/2379057.2379076
DO - 10.1145/2379057.2379076
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84869051692
SN - 9781450314978
T3 - SIGDOC'12 - Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
SP - 95
EP - 103
BT - SIGDOC'12 - Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
Y2 - 3 October 2012 through 5 October 2012
ER -