Toward Unweaving Streams of Thought for Reflection in Professional Software Design

Software designers make decisions covering a wide variety of aspects of the software to be designed through nested, intertwined processes. Some of these dependencies among design decisions might not be obvious, especially for people who didn't start with the project at the beginning of the desi...

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Published in:IEEE software 2012-01, Vol.29 (1), p.34-38
Main Authors: Nakakoji, K., Yamamoto, Y., Matsubara, N., Shirai, Y.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Computer programs
Decisions
Design
design meeting record viewer
Designers
Deterioration
DPS (Design Practice Streams)
interaction design
Motion pictures
Product design
Product development
Product quality
Reflection
Segments
Software
Software design
software design support
Software engineering
Streaming media
Streams
Studies
Video data
Video signal processing
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Summary:Software designers make decisions covering a wide variety of aspects of the software to be designed through nested, intertwined processes. Some of these dependencies among design decisions might not be obvious, especially for people who didn't start with the project at the beginning of the design process. Extending or altering an existing design decision without fully understanding its dependencies might result in a deterioration of the quality of the software design. Design practice streams (DPS) tools help designers browse the segments of video data relevant to a particular topic by specifying a region on a whiteboard or by choosing a few terms used in a meeting transcript to further investigate the point of interest effectively.
ISSN:0740-7459
1937-4194
DOI:10.1109/MS.2011.125