Structural factors that affect global software development learning team performance

SIGMIS CPR'09 - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGMIS Computer Personnel Research Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 187-195

  Swigger, Kathleen ^a   Alpaslan, Ferda Nur ^b   Lopez, Victor ^c   Brazile, Robert ^a   Dafoulas, George ^d   Serce, Fatma Cemile ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA DE PANAMÁ   (Panama)

^d MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e ATILIM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Computer supported cooperative learning; Global software development learning teams; Groupware

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE WORK; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE LEARNING; DISTRIBUTED LEARNING; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LEARNING TEAMS; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; PILOT PROJECTS; SOFTWARE PROJECT; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; STRUCTURAL FACTOR; TEAM PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL BASIS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GROUPWARE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PERSONNEL; RESEARCH; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EDUCATION;

EID: 70349319188     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1542130.1542167     Document Type: Conference Paper

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