A Domain-Specific Language for Coordinating Collaboration

Manually managing collaboration becomes a problem in distributed software engineering environments. Individual engineers easily loose track of who to involve and when. The result is lack of communication, alternatively communication overload, leading to errors and rework. This paper presents a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) for scripting of collaboration structures and their evolution. We demonstrate the DSL's benefits and expressiveness for setting up an iteration planning meeting in an agile development setting.