Coordination and productivity issues in free software: The role of brooks' law

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 319-328

  Adams, Paul J ^a   Capiluppi, Andrea ^b   Boldyreff, Cornelia ^b  

^a Zea Partners BE

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COORDINATION COSTS; DISTRIBUTED APPROACHES; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; FREE SOFTWARE; LARGE PROJECT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES; UP PERIOD;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 70849116202     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2009.5306308     Document Type: Conference Paper

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