Collaborative Software

Emerging practices, collaboration tools, and effective techniques for incorporating your key stakeholders into the software process. Don‘t spend months building the wrong software! Collaborative Software is a unique and practical guide for effectively involving all stakeholders in the of software to ensure sustainable decisions. In Collaborative Software you‘ll learn how to: • Prepare and facilitate collaborative modeling sessions with tools such as Business Model Canvas, Event Storming, Domain Storytelling, Example Mapping, and Wardley Mapping • Pick and apply heuristics for modeling software • Techniques for getting all needed knowledge from the group • The influence of ranking • The impact and opportunities of cognitive bias • Resistance and conflict resolution • Practices for following up after a modeling session • Document the session and report to stakeholders Collaborative Software combines its authors‘ deep experience in behavioral science, decision-making theory and software architecture into an essential guide for making collaborative decisions. You‘ll learn to use process visualizations, engaging sessions, and social dynamic management to ensure every stakeholder is contributing their vital insights to a project. Best of all, the skills you‘ll learn make it easy for software teams to develop software directly with their stakeholders—no need to rely on a centralized or top-down . Forewords by Diana Montalion and Trond Hjorteland. About the technology Delivering high-quality software requires the active participation of all stakeholders in the process. But how do you align individuals with different roles, perspectives, and priorities to create sustainable software? Collaborative Software presents proven strategies that you can use to foster productive decision making, resolve conflicts and uncertainties, and elevate the quality of outcomes. About the book In Collaborative Software , you‘ll explore principles, techniques, and tools to promote safe communication as you discover business problems, formalize requirements, and implement a software project. It highlights established collaborative modeling tools like Event Storming, Example Mapping, Wardley Mapping, and Domain Storytelling, and introduces unique approaches for managing cognitive biases, conflict, and organizational hierarchy. Whether you‘re a business stakeholder, a technical contributor, or a professional facilitator, you‘ll learn how to hear and benefit from every voice in the room. What‘s inside • Prepare and lead collaborative modeling sessions • Turn conflict into innovation • Make sustainable software decisions • Improve software from a sociotechnical perspective About the reader For anyone involved in the software development process. About the author Evelyn van Kelle, Gien Verschatse, and Kenny Baas-Schwegler are internationally recognized experts in collaborative modeling and organizational decision making for sociotechnical systems. The technical editor on this book was Charlie Schafer.