Globally distributed software development project performance: An empirical analysis

6th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 125-134

  Ramasubbu, Narayan ^a   Balan, Rajesh Krishna ^a  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Empirical analysis; Globally distributed software development; Quality management; Software engineering economics

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING ECONOMICS; DEVELOPMENT PRODUCTIVITIES; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENTS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSES; FIELD STUDIES; OBSERVED DATUMS; PROCESS MATURITIES; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROCESSES; SOFTWARE FIRMS; SOFTWARE PROJECTS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; DISPERSION (WAVES); ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 37849030530     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1287624.1287643     Document Type: Conference Paper

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