Pitfalls in remote team coordination: Lessons learned from a case study

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

Volumn 5089 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 345-359

  Šmite, Darja ^a   Moe, Nils Brede ^b   Torkar, Richard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

^b SINTEF   (Norway)

^c BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGY;

CASE STUDIES; COMPLEX SOFTWARE; COORDINATION AND CONTROL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTIONS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LESSONS LEARNED; MULTI-SITE; NEW OPPORTUNITIES; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; TEAM COMMUNICATION; TEAM COORDINATION; TEAM PERFORMANCE;

COORDINATION REACTIONS;

EID: 48249135439     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69566-0_28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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