A case study on the impact of customer communication on defects in Agile software development

Proceedings - AGILE Conference, 2006

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 11-21

  Korkala, Mikko ^a   Abrahamsson, Pekka ^b   Kyllönen, Pekka ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; ELECTRONIC MAIL; FEEDBACK CONTROL; ITERATIVE METHODS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AGILE ORGANIZATIONS; DEFECT RATES; FACE-TO-FACE COMMUNICATION;

AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

EID: 34247647162     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AGILE.2006.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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