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Beyond Establishing the Four-Day Workweek: Understanding Adaptation and Long-Term Survival in an Agile Software Organization
Michael Neumann, Darja Šmite
Context: Existing research on the four-day workweek (4DWW) has primarily examined its introduction and short-term effects, with limited understanding of its long-term survival or i…
Attributes to Support the Formulation of Practically Relevant Research Problems in Software Engineering
Anrafel Fernandes Pereira, Maria Teresa Baldassarre, Daniel Mendez +9
[Background] A well-formulated research problem is essential for achieving practical relevance in Software Engineering (SE), yet there is a lack of structured guidance in this earl…
A Wave of Resignations in the Aftermath of Remote Onboarding
Darja Smite, Franz Zieris, Lars-Ola Damm
The COVID-19 pandemic has permanently altered workplace structures, normalizing remote work. However, critical evidence highlights challenges with fully remote arrangements, partic…
Exploring Engagement in Hybrid Meetings
Daniela Grassi, Fabio Calefato, Darja Smite +2
Background. The widespread adoption of hybrid work following the COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally transformed software development practices, introducing new challenges in commu…
Quo Vadis, Code Review? Exploring the Future of Code Review
Michael Dorner, Andreas Bauer, Darja Šmite +6
Context: Code review has long been a core practice in collaborative software engineering. As automation becomes increasingly embedded in development workflows, the role and functio…
Integrating Pair Programming as a Work Practice
Nina Haugland Andersen, Anastasiia Tkalich, Nils Brede Moe +4
Context: Pair programming (PP) is more relevant than ever. As modern systems grow in complexity, knowledge sharing and collaboration across teams have become essential. However, de…
Who "Controls" Where Work Shall be Done? State-of-Practice in Post-Pandemic Remote Work Regulation
Darja Smite, Nils Brede Moe, Maria Teresa Baldassarre +8
The COVID-19 pandemic has permanently altered workplace structures, making remote work a widespread practice. While many employees advocate for flexibility, many employers reconsid…
Towards a Software Architecture Description for Tax Compliance
Michael Dorner, Oliver Treidler, Tom-Eric Kunz +5
The internal reuse of software components owned by organizational units in different countries constitutes an implicit form of licensing that may be taxable under international reg…
What Attracts Employees to Work Onsite in Times of Increased Remote Working?
Darja Smite, Eriks Klotins, Nils Brede Moe
COVID-19 pandemic has irreversibly changed the attitude towards office presence. While previously remote workers were met with skepticism and distrust, today the same applies to co…
Understanding the Difference between Office Presence and Co-presence in Team Member Interactions
Nils Brede Moe, Simen Ulsaker, Darja Smite +2
Although the public health emergency related to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has officially ended, many software developers still work partly from home. Agile t…
Taxing Collaborative Software Engineering
Michael Dorner, Maximilian Capraro, Oliver Treidler +5
The engineering of complex software systems is often the result of a highly collaborative effort. However, collaboration within a multinational enterprise has an overlooked legal i…
Half-Empty Offices in Flexible Work Arrangements: Why are Employees Not Returning?
Darja Smite, Nils Brede Moe, Anastasiia Tkalich +7
Although the pandemic times of the world-wide forced working from home seem to be in the past, many knowledge workers choose to continue working predominantly from home as a partia…
What happens to psychological safety when going remote?
Anastasiia Tkalich, Darja Smite, Nina Haugland Andersen +1
Psychological safety is a precondition for learning and success in software teams. Companies such as SavingsBank, which is discussed in this article, have developed good practices…
Work-From-Home is Here to Stay: Call for Flexibility in Post-Pandemic Work Policies
Darja Smite, Nils Brede Moe, Jarle Hildrum +2
In early 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic forced employees in tech companies worldwide to abruptly transition from working in offices to working from their homes. During two years of pr…
Improving Productivity through Corporate Hackathons: A Multiple Case Study of Two Large-scale Agile Organizations
Nils Brede Moe, Rasmus Ulfsnes, Viktoria Stray +1
Software development companies organize hackathons to encourage innovation. Despite many benefits of hackathons, in large-scale agile organizations where many teams work together,…
Only Time Will Tell: Modelling Information Diffusion in Code Review with Time-Varying Hypergraphs
Michael Dorner, Darja Šmite, Daniel Mendez +2
Background: Modern code review is expected to facilitate knowledge sharing: All relevant information, the collective expertise, and meta-information around the code change and its…
Innovation in Large-scale agile -- Benefits and Challenges of Hackathons when Hacking from Home
Rasmus Ulfsnes, Viktoria Stray, Nils Brede Moe +1
Hackathons are events in which diverse teams work together to explore, and develop solutions, software or even ideas. Hackathons have been recognized not only as public events for…
From Collaboration to Solitude and Back: Remote Pair Programming during COVID-19
Darja Smite, Marius Mikalsen, Nils B. Moe +2
Along with the increasing popularity of agile software development, software work has become much more social than ever. Contemporary software teams rely on a variety of collaborat…
A Taxonomy of Assets for the Development of Software-Intensive Products and Services
Ehsan Zabardast, Javier Gonzalez-Huerta, Tony Gorschek +3
Context: Developing software-intensive products or services usually involves a plethora of software artefacts. Assets are artefacts intended to be used more than once and have valu…
From Forced Working-From-Home to Working-From-Anywhere: Two Revolutions in Telework
Darja Smite, Nils Brede Moe, Eriks Klotins +1
The COVID-19 outbreak has admittedly caused a major disruption worldwide. The interruptions to production, transportation, and mobility have clearly had a significant impact on the…