A survey on the state of the practice in distributed software development: Criteria for task allocation

Proceedings - 2009 4th IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 41-50

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

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER IESE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Global software development; Project management; Task allocation

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENT; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES; QUALITATIVE STUDY; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS; SOURCING STRATEGIES; STATE OF THE PRACTICE; TASK ALLOCATION;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 71049170146     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2009.12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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