Guidelines for effective bridging in global software engineering

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 23-32

  Milewski, Allen E ^a   Tremaine, Marilyn ^b   Egan, Richard ^c   Zhang, Suling ^d   Köbler, Felix ^e   O'Sullivan, Patrick ^f  

^a MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d KEAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f Smarter Cities Technology Centre   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELETERIOUS EFFECTS; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERINGS; EMPIRICAL FINDINGS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FACILITATED COLLABORATIONS; GLOBAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERINGS; GROUP BEHAVIORS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROCESSES;

BRIDGES; ENGINEERING; LOCATION; MANAGERS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 56349154129     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2008.16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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