Self-organization of teams for free/libre open source software development

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 564-575

  Crowston, Kevin ^a   Li, Qing ^a   Wei, Kangning ^a   Eseryel, U Yeliz ^a   Howison, James ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordination; Distributed teams; Free libre open source software development; Qualitative research methods; Self organizing teams; Task assignment

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; FREE/LIBRE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS; SELF-ORGANIZING TEAMS; TASK ASSIGNMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34247102334     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2007.02.004     Document Type: Article

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