Commentary 23 Software engineering itself provides good test cases for trying groupware. GSS, Professional Cultures, Geography, and Software Engineering Brent Auernheimer Department of Computer Science California State University Fresno, CA 93740 brent@CSUFresno,edu Each day I am reminded that my expectations for professional relationships and interactions may differ from those of people around me. My university has no ethnic majority; my academic colleagues and I live Snow's "Two Cultures" (only two0 phenomenon; and my discipline of software engineering is rethinking one of its oldest, most widespread techniques, software inspections. This happens while industry and academia grasp at jetsam to keep afloat in the rising tide of distance learning. In the paper's abstract, Vick notes the "globalization of the workplace and the use of teams working in distributed environments." Globalization describes part but not all of changingworkplaces. Other words, such as "multiculturalism," capture another portion, but are too politically charged. Simply,it is increasingly likely that my co-workers will be different than I am. To borrow a term from cognitive psychology, "my mental model is probably different from yours." GSS gives us a place to meet and be productive. I sometimes feel that to use GSS I need to bring a
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GSS, professional culture, geography, and software engineering
Auernheimer, Brent
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, Volume 22 (2)
Association for Computing Machinery – May 1, 1998
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