Global software development: Where are the benefits?

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 127-131

  Conchuir, Eoin Ó ^a   Ågerfalk, Pär J ^b   Olsson, Helena H ^c   Fitzgerald, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT; BEST PRACTICE; COORDINATION AND CONTROL; DEVELOPMENT COSTS; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; MANAGEMENT SERVICE; MODULARIZATIONS; NEW OPPORTUNITIES; OFF-SHORE; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MODELS; SOFTWARE INDUSTRY; THREE DIMENSIONS; TIME ZONES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MODULAR CONSTRUCTION; SOFTWARE DESIGN; WAGES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 69149101815     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1536616.1536648     Document Type: Article

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