Global software development projects in one of the biggest companies in Latvia: Is geographical distribution a problem?

Software Process Improvement and Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 61-76

  Šmite, Darja ^a  

^a Audit and Consulting   (Latvia)

Author keywords

Global software development; Software development in distributed environment; Software process improvement

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT IN DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENT; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33646057973     PISSN: 10774866     EISSN: 10991670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spip.252     Document Type: Article

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