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The work-reflection-learning cycle in SE student projects: Use of collaboration tools
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Lightweight collaboration tools – Collaboration tools that can be acquired and taken
into use at low cost (e.g. money, time to learn) for individuals and their organization.
A lightweight collaboration tool typically provides a limited set of features to support
one aspect of collaborative work and may thus be relatively easily integrated into
existing work processes (rather than imposing a certain process on the user). Many of
the lightweight collaboration tools are associated with Web 2.0.
O
Open source software (OSS) – computer software for which the source code and
certain other rights are provided under a software license that permits users to study,
change, and improve the software. The Open Source Initiative outlines a set of criteria
for an open source licence (OpenSourceInitiative 2010)
P
Post-mortem – In the context of project work, post-mortem refers to something
undertaken after project completion or after the completion of a project phase.
Problem based learning – see Section 3.1
Project based learning (PBL) – see Section 3.1
Project retrospective – an activity conducted after the completion of an entire project
or a major project phase to reflect on and learn from the project process in order to
improve it (Dingsøyr 2005) (or identify lessons learned to draw on in other projects).
Post-mortem review, post-mortem analysis, post-mortem evaluation, and also, for
short, post-mortem largely refer to the same type of activity, project retrospective
typically being used about post-mortem evaluation in the context of agile software
development (Derby et al. 2006; Kerth 2001).
S
Social software – a range of software systems used for interacting and sharing data,
comprising lightweight collaboration tools like instant messaging as well as web sites
like Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, YouTube, amazon and eBay allowing the users to
interact through the system and build and maintain a social profile. See Web 2.0.
Software development (SD) – the domain of work concerned with the development
of software. Can be considered a subset of software engineering.
Software engineering (SE) – A) An engineering discipline which is concerned with
all aspects of software production from early stages of system specification through to
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