Enacting responsibility assignment in software development environments

In this paper we present the concept of responsibility assignment and its use as a governance mechanism in a software development environment. We review common representations of responsibility assignments, their relationship to the operational model of software engineering and the semantics required to automate their enactment in development tools. We also present a vision for enactment scenarios in tools and compare with the process extensibility mechanisms currently implemented in the Jazz Team Platform. Copyright 2008 ACM.