"How do i know what i have to do?"- The role of the inquiry culture in requirements communication for distributed software development projects

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 921-925

  Mikulovic, Vesna ^a   Heiss, Michael ^a  

^a SIEMENS AG ÖSTERREICH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Global software development; Informal formal communication; Inquiry culture; Requirement interaction management; Requirements communication; State machine

Indexed keywords

INFORMAL/FORMAL COMMUNICATION; INQUIRY CULTURE; REQUIREMENT INTERACTION MANAGEMENT; REQUIREMENTS COMMUNICATION; STATE MACHINES;

COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 34247100283     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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