A decision model for supporting task allocation processes in global software development

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 32 LNBIP, Issue , 2009, Pages 332-346

  Lamersdorf, Ansgar ^a   Münch, Jürgen ^b   Rombach, Dieter ^a,b  

^a France   (Germany)

^b Fraunhofer IESE ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS; CRITICAL FACTORS; DECISION MODELS; DECISION SUPPORTS; DISTRIBUTED PROJECTS; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; MANAGEMENT PROCESS; MULTIPLE CRITERIA; QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWS; SOFTWARE INTENSIVE SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL MODELING; TASK ALLOCATION; THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS;

RISK PERCEPTION;

EID: 70149118735     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02152-7_25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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