Using Digital Tabletops to Support Distributed Agile Planning Meetings (original) (raw)

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Digital tabletop is an emerging technology that is being increasingly used to support group activities. Agile Planner for Digital Tabletops (APDT) is a tool that was built to support agile planning meetings. It provides interactions similar to those used in traditional pen-and-paper meetings. Previous versions of APDT were only capable of handling collocated planning meetings. In this paper, we succinctly describe the new extension of APDT that provides support for distributed planning meetings. A series of evaluations for the new version of APDT has been conducted, and the feedback tends to be positive.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Dr. NW, Calgary, AB, Canada, T2N 1N4
    Xin Wang, Yaser Ghanam, Shelly Park & Frank Maurer

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  1. Xin Wang
  2. Yaser Ghanam
  3. Shelly Park
  4. Frank Maurer

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, P.O.Box 68, 00014, Helsinki, Finland
    Pekka Abrahamsson
  2. DIEE Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
    Michele Marchesi
  3. Agile Software Engineering/e-Business Engineering (ase/ebe) group, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
    Frank Maurer

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Wang, X., Ghanam, Y., Park, S., Maurer, F. (2009). Using Digital Tabletops to Support Distributed Agile Planning Meetings. In: Abrahamsson, P., Marchesi, M., Maurer, F. (eds) Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming. XP 2009. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 31. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01853-4\_59

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