Analysis of the collaborative activities in software development processes from the perspective of chronotopes

The theory of ‘Chronotope’ was introduced by Mikhail Bakhtin in his study of literary genres and subsequently investigated in the fields of media, education, arts, music, film and other disciplines. Class-room chronotopes analyzing student–teacher collaborative activities in real world have already been investigated by the researchers over a decade, but a similar study is absent in the software world and specially in CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work). The focus of this article is to show how collaborative activities in a software development process in real world might fit into certain types of chronotope, thus applying and extending Bakhtin’s theory of chronotope in the area of software development process and methodologies, providing further motivation for research and applicability of chronotopes in the area of CSCW.