Coordination practices in distributed software development of small enterprises

Proceedings - International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 235-246

  Boden, Alexander ^a   Nett, Bernhard ^a   Wulf, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE STUDIES; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENTS; EASTERN EUROPE; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENTS; INFORMAL COMMUNICATIONS; SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES; SMALL ENTERPRISES; SOFTWARE COMPANIES; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENTS; SPECIALIZED TOOLS; WORK PRACTICES;

MILITARY OPERATIONS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 47949105530     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2007.18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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