Continuous Coordination (CC): A New Collaboration Paradigm

The increase in software complexity introduced the need for soft- ware development teams and consequently the need to coordinate team members' activities and create a shared awareness. We seek to overcome some the pitfalls of earlier attempts to coordinate software development through a new coordination paradigm we term Con- tinuous Coordination (CC). Generally speaking, the CC paradigm complements formal synchronization with support for informal ac- tivities. In this paper, we define the CC paradigm within three di- mensions and demonstrate how we embodied CC through a spec- trum of Eclipse plug-ins.