Supporting collaboration with loose relationship

The potential of loose-style support of collaboration is discussed. This kind of support does not directly control the way of doing jobs, but indirectly supports collaboration by helping workers to recognize the current situation of the project, to make decisions, to avoid mistakes, and so on. An example of a collaboration supporting system for large-scale software development is presented that adopts both loose-style and tight-style. In our implementation of the loose-style, the system extracts information during the tightly controlled collab or at ion processes and distributes it. This enables developers to share information flow.