Effective work practices for software engineering: Free/libre open source software development

WISER 2004 - ACM Workshop on Interdisciplinary Software Engineering Research

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 18-26

  Crowston, Kevin ^a   Annabi, Hala ^b   Howison, James ^a   Masango, Chengetai ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective mind theory; Coordination theory; Free and open source software; Team effectiveness

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

COORDINATION THEORY; FREE/LIBRE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE (FLOSS); HACKMAN'S MODEL;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 27644459483     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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