Impediments to requirements engineering during global software development

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 793-805

  Hanisch, Jo ^a   Corbitt, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Global software development; Global virtual teams; Requirements engineering

Indexed keywords

EID: 37249063534     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000723     Document Type: Article

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