Aligning it components to achieve agility in globally distributed system development

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 49-54

  Lee, One Ki ^a   Banerjee, Probir ^a   Lim, Kai H ^a   Kumar, Kuldeep ^a,b,c   Van Hillegersberg, Jos ^d,e   Wei, Kwok Kee ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Department of Information Systems ^*  (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; IT INFRASTRUCTURE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33749557149     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 00010782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1164394.1164419     Document Type: Review

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