Modeling Virtual Meetings within Software Engineering Environment

It is a common scenario to see project's stakeholders, such as managers, team leaders, and developers carrying out their meeting in the online environment without a suitable preparation and facilitation For instance, stakeholders engaging in negotiation sessions trying to communicate system requirements in the virtual environment might face requirements misunderstanding which in turn might cause a whole project to fail. Usually, a meeting agenda and design is implicit in the facilitator's head. In this article, the authors are presenting a general framework to model group-based activities and meetings within software engineering field in a simplified and formal manner. Traditionally, managers submit their web-based group meeting information in a form of text-based instructions (1). Then a group facilitator or chairperson will lead the group throughout the meeting to achieve the desired objectives. In this article, a two level of modeling views are proposed, the static view and the dynamic view. The static view mainly represents the aggregation association between session stages, phases, and activities.