Analyzing the Intertwining of Social and Technical Aspects in Agile Methods

Examining the Software Engineering (SE) last decade evolution, there are several agile initiatives trying to fit the development into a shrinking time-to-market. With many advances in SE field, the new development issues include interactions and collaboration in addition to traditional technical issues. In this context, this work aims to analyze the intertwining of social and technical aspects in two popular and specific agile methods: Scrum and XP (extreme Programming), in order to understand the root of these new development issues and guide future research on process definition. To ground the analysis was developed a social model supporting the learning in development organizations: the Social Learning Environments.