Distributed agile development: A case study of customer communication challenges

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 31 LNBIP, Issue , 2009, Pages 161-167

  Korkala, Mikko ^a   Pikkarainen, Minna ^a   Conboy, Kieran ^b  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; PUBLIC RELATIONS; SALES;

AGILE DEVELOPMENT; AGILE METHODOLOGIES; COMMUNICATION MEDIA; CUSTOMER COMMUNICATIONS; CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS; DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENTS; INFORMATION HIDING; NATURE OF SOFTWARE; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICIES;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 66749157372     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01853-4_21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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