Leveraging expertise in global software teams: Going outside boundaries

Proceedings - 2006 IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 149-158

  Ehrlich, Kate ^a   Chang, Klarissa ^b  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INNOVATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

GLOBAL SOFTWARE TEAMS; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; STAFF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS; TRANSPARENT WORK;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 38649131437     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2006.261228     Document Type: Conference Paper

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