Does distance still matter?

Software Process Improvement and Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 493-510

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributed collaboration and delay; Global software development; Jazz; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; GRAPH THEORY; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

COMMUNICATION DELAYS; COMMUNICATION STRUCTURES; DISTRIBUTED COLLABORATION AND DELAY; DISTRIBUTED COLLABORATIONS; DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENTS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; JAZZ; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSES; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENTS; TASK COMPLETION TIMES;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 56749165230     PISSN: 10774866     EISSN: 10991670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spip.401     Document Type: Article

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