An empirical study of global software development: Distance and speed

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn 2001-May, Issue , 2001, Pages 81-90

  Herbsleb, James D ^a   Mockus, Audris ^a   Finholt, Thomas A ^b   Grinter, Rebecca E ^c  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Awareness; Delay; Global collaboration; Informal communication; Software development; Speed

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; COMMUNICATION; ENGINEERS; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGERS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

AWARENESS; DELAY; DEVELOPMENT CYCLE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GLOBAL COLLABORATION; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; INFORMAL COMMUNICATION; MULTI-SITE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES;

SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0034998120     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2001.919083     Document Type: Conference Paper

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