Combining local negotiation and global planning in cooperative software development projects

Abstract

In cooperative software development, each programmer has their own plans and conflicts or redundancies inevitably arise among them. We are concerned with two main problems: first, to control changes without sacrificing programmers’ flexibility, and, second, to guide change activities to conform project policies. Traditional methods of change request management focus on the management process s~cture based on project policies while cooperative development methodologies concern mainly with the conflict resolutions among each changes. In this paper, we describe an architecture which deals with proposal of changes. Based on plan integration it seamlessly supports both change coordination through negotiations and the change management process to have changes converge until they meet the project goals.