JIM
HERBSLEB
Associate Professor
Institute for Software Research International
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My research interests are in the intersection of software engineering
and computer-supported cooperative work. More specifically, I am
interested in understanding collaboration in software engineering,
especially across distance, and how to support it with collaboration
technology, software engineering and management practices, and
appropriate organizational design, and open source software development.
I seek to understand collaboration in terms of the patterns of
dependencies among decisions in development work -- patterns introduced,
among other things, by adoption of abstract structures such as
architectures and product lines.
More generally, I am interested in empirical software engineering,
and promoting the role of empirical investigation in advancing
the scientific underpinnings of software engineering. In my view,
the relevant scientific fields include not only mathematics and
computer science, but also the substance and methods of such fields
as anthropology, psychology, and sociology.
In my recent work, these themes have played out in establishing
a product development "collaboratory" in Lucent Technologies,
where colleagues and I
- conducted empirical studies of multi-site development;
- designed, built, and deployed solutions including collaboration technology,
organizational models, and software engineering practices; and
- collaborated with product groups in the design and development of collaboration
services.
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