Managing radical software engineers: Between order and chaos

Kevin C. Desouza; Yukika Awazu

doi:10.1145/1083106.1083110

Managing radical software engineers: Between order and chaos

Kevin C. Desouza, Yukika Awazu

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Abstract

Innovations in software engineering organizations frequently emerge from risky behavior. Most often, these risks are taken by only a small percentage of the software engineering staff - radical engineers (REs). They go against the status quo, experiment with new methods or technologies, and have the burden of bringing the innovations into the mainstream of the organization. Most organizations however, do a poor job of adequately and effectively managing radical engineers (REs). They can be found at either end of the order-chaos continuum. Successful software organizations are those that are able to balance between the extremes and manage REs effectively. In this paper, we discuss lessons learnt in managing REs from software organizations. Copyright ACM.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2005 Workshop on Human and Social Factors of Software Engineering, HSSE 2005
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
ISBN (Electronic)	1595931201, 9781595931207
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1083106.1083110
State	Published - May 16 2005
Externally published	Yes
Event	2005 Workshop on Human and Social Factors of Software Engineering, HSSE 2005 - St. Louis, United States Duration: May 16 2005 → …

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Other	2005 Workshop on Human and Social Factors of Software Engineering, HSSE 2005
Country/Territory	United States
City	St. Louis
Period	5/16/05 → …

Keywords

Incentives
Innovation
Knowledge management
Knowledge workers
Software development
Software engineers

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction

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Desouza, KC & Awazu, Y 2005, Managing radical software engineers: Between order and chaos. in Proceedings of the 2005 Workshop on Human and Social Factors of Software Engineering, HSSE 2005. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2005 Workshop on Human and Social Factors of Software Engineering, HSSE 2005, St. Louis, United States, 5/16/05. https://doi.org/10.1145/1083106.1083110

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