Yet sometimes the hype is justified, in particular in the case of open- source software, free programs developed by loosely knit groups of developers.
More and more product development projects involve geographically distributed groups of developers.
Bird et al. in [20] use social-network analysis to investigate coordination among groups of developers with socio-technical dependencies.
"We aim to bring as many large groups of developers onto our platform as possible," says Gillis.
Small groups of developers creating applications for Android have had access to the code for several months.
Seventeen small groups of developers with similar levels of experience completed a 2.5-h group cognitive mapping process using a group support system (GSS).
The recruited contributors by the release team may or may not be leaders (maintainers) of their corresponding projects, however, they represent different groups of developers.
Collaborative Protégé allows entire groups of developers who are building an ontology collaboratively to hold discussions, chat, make annotations and make changes as a part of the ontology-development process.
Therefore, they are exposed to the same issues that other contributors might face, they can raise an issue before it escalates, or they can find better ways to communicate with certain groups of developers.
They mean there are two groups of developers: those who want to build apps quickly and sell them for a low price, and those who would rather create deeply integrated experiences for a premium cost.
