Work dispersion, process-based learning, and offshore software development performance

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 437-458

  Ramasubbu, Narayan ^a   Mithas, Sunil ^b   Krishnan, M S ^c   Kemerer, Chris F ^d  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Capability maturity model; Distributed teams; Global service disaggregation; Offshore software development; Software engineering; Software productivity; Software project performance; Software quality

Indexed keywords

INVESTMENTS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

CAPABILITY MATURITY MODEL (CMM); OFFSHORE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE PRODUCTIVITY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 44449102655     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/25148847     Document Type: Article

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