Project Management on Multimedia Projects: Preliminary Results on Communication, Interaction and Team Work Dynamics
Carolina Carvalho Alvim Seabra, Ana Margarida Almeida · Procedia Computer Science · 2015
Multimedia projects are a unique type of developing innovative products and services, with a distinctive set of team members, knowledge and methods. Studies around agile development, centered in software engineering projects, are not specifically oriented to some of its particularities. Nevertheless, it's possible to develop and manage a multimedia project using agile methodologies, although studies remain to ascertain if these projects can be ruled by some of these methods. The purpose of this research is both to (i) analyze and understand agile development methodologies, instruments, tools and methods considering the particularities of multimedia projects development and to (ii) analyze data collected in a real development environment, observing practices and events of a specific project, confronted with existent methodologies, in order to gather information to design and propose an agile development support model. In this paper, some preliminary results of this on-going research are presented, mainly concerning ‘communication’, ‘interaction’ and ‘team work dynamics’.