A comparative empirical study of communication in distributed and collocated development teams

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 35-44

  Al Ani, Ban ^a   Edwards, H Keith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AND MODELS; COMMUNICATION MODELS; COMMUNICATION PATTERNS; DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COMMUNITIES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROJECTS; SYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATIONS; TEAM COMMUNICATIONS; TEAM MEMBERS; TOOL SUPPORTS;

INFORMATION THEORY; MODELS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 56349163400     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2008.9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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