Global software development and delay: Does distance still matter?

Proceedings - 2008 3rd IEEE International Conference Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 45-54

  Nguyen, Thanh ^a,b   Wolf, Timo ^a,b   Damian, Daniela ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b Software Engineering InterAction Lab (SEGAL)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; GRAPH THEORY; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

COMMUNICATION STRUCTURES; DISTRIBUTED COLLABORATIONS; DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENTS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENTS; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSES; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENTS; TASK COMPLETION TIMES;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 56349089729     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2008.39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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