Ten strategies for successful distributed development

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

Volumn 206, Issue , 2006, Pages 119-137

  Lings, Brian ^a   Lundell, Björn ^a   Ågerfalk, Pär J ^b   Fitzgerald, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Case studies; Development process; Distributed development framework; Distributed software development; Global software development; Literature analysis; Strategies

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

CASE-STUDIES; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENT; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; LITERATURE ANALYSIS; STRATEGIES;

PLANNING;

EID: 33845514540     PISSN: 15715736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-34410-1_9     Document Type: Article

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