Meeting the challenge of communication in offshore software development

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4716 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 19-26

  Christiansen, Henrik Munkebo ^a  

^a NNIT AS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Communication; Offshore software development; Outsourcing

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); OUTSOURCING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

OFFSHORE PROJECT; OFFSHORE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 38049129659     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75542-5_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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