On the suitability of particular software development roles to Global software development

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3-12

  Lane, Michael T ^a   Ågerfalk, Pär J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Lero

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS ANALYSTS; FUTURE RESEARCHES; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENTS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCHES; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENTS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 56349130983     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2008.19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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