Architectures, coordination, and distance: Conway's law and beyond

IEEE Software

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 63-70

  Herbsleb, James D ^a   Grinter, Rebecca E ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING;

ARCHITECTURE BASED COORDINATION; CONWAY LAW; PLAN BASED COORDINATION; PROCESS BASED COORDINATION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0033184938     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/52.795103     Document Type: Article

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