Anti-patterns operationalization

h1. Collective Procrastination

h2. General Description

"Collective Procrastination on GitHub":https://github.com/ReliSA/Software-process-antipatterns-catalogue/blob/master/catalogue/Collective_Procrastination.md

h2. Operationalization

h3. Scale

* *detection level*

** iteration

* *granularity*

** day in iteration

* *from*

** iteration start date - if null, end date of previous + 1 day

* *to*

** iteration end date - max(due date, last issue closure date)

* *ordering*

** chronological 

h3. Metrics

* *iteration duration*

** number of days in iteration

** (end date - start date) + 1

* *issue count*

** number of issues belonging to the iteration

* *daily average*

** number of issues to be closed per day on average

** issue count / iteration duration

* *date closed count*

** number of issues actually closed on a particular date

* *look-behind count*

** number of issues closed in _n1_ days before (and including) given date

** sum(date closed count) since given date - _n1_ days (excluded) until given date (included)

* *look-ahead count*

** number of issues closed in _n2_ days after (and excluding) a given date

** sum(date closed count) since given date (excluded) until given date + _n2_ days (included)

h3. Detection Thresholds

* *silence*

** look-behind count for any day in iteration < _x1_ * issue count

* *cliff*

** look-ahead count for and day in iteration < _x2_ * _n2_ * daily 

h3. Experimental Values

* *_n1_*

** number of days for look-behind

** 6

** justification: big enough to not detect weekends + holidays, small enough to detect anti-pattern on one-week-long iterations

* *_n2_*

** number of days for look-ahead

** 3

* *_x1_*

** silence steepness

** 0,1 (10% of overall iteration issues closed in 6 days still counts as silence)

* *_x2_*

** cliff steepnes

** 2 (cliff needs to be at least twice as steep as the ideal)

h3. Visual Validation

* issues burndown (rock-edge or staircase look)