Who should work with whom? Building effective software project teams

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 79-82

  Gorla, Narasimhaiah ^a   Lam, Yan Wah ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION GATHERING; KEIRSEY TEMPERAMENT SORTER; MEYERS-BRIGG TYPE INDICATORS (MBTI); PERSONALITY COMPOSITION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; JOB ANALYSIS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PRODUCTIVITY; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURVEYS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 4243079823     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/990680.990684     Document Type: Review

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