Socio-technical congruence: A framework for assessing the impact of technical and work dependencies on software development productivity

ESEM'08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2-11

  Cataldo, Marcelo ^a   Herbsleb, James D ^b   Carley, Kathleen M ^b  

^a ROBERT BOSCH GMBH   (Germany)

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative software development; Coordination; Software dependencies

Indexed keywords

GROUPWARE; MODULAR CONSTRUCTION;

COLLABORATIVE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; COORDINATION; COORDINATION PATTERNS; DATA DEPENDENCIES; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; LOGICAL DEPENDENCIES; MODIFICATION REQUESTS; MODULARIZATION; SOCIO TECHNICALS; SOFTWARE DEPENDENCIES; SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS; TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 62949129036     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1414004.1414008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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